[Bug 269857] New: kded4 and plasma-desktop aquire huge amounts of virtual memory, causing massive paging

[Gunter Ohrner]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=269857

           Summary: kded4 and plasma-desktop aquire huge amounts of
                    virtual memory, causing massive paging
           Product: kde
           Version: 4.6
          Platform: Ubuntu Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: kdebugs at CustomCDROM.de


Version:           4.6 (using KDE 4.6.1) 
OS:                Linux

Kubuntu Natty Amd64 test version running KDE 4.6.1.

The following looks rather unhealthy - my system has 2 G of physical RAM...

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
 2404 gunter    20   0 1116m 184m  12m S    0  9.2   2:49.24 kded4              
27681 gunter    20   0 1179m 138m  52m S    4  6.9   0:29.98 plasma-desktop     

             total       used       free
Swap:      1992024    1525876     466148

How can I debug why kded4 is eating my memory?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Just use KDE, kded4 will aquire between 1 and 2 Gb of virtual memory.

Actual Results:  
kded4's virtual memory size grows huge, causing massive paging.

Expected Results:  
kded4 should not use *that* much memory.

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