craige2
April 24th, 2015, 06:01 PM
Hello,
as title mentions, plasmashell rises up but doesn't fall. I don't get any error related to this or at all for that matter.
Bellow I will try to describe the problem as thoroughly I can with out giving you headache.
I have default widget and themes, windows, icons, colour e.t.c
1)I boot up and log on on with memory: plasmashell 230M and total memory 1.1GB ( everything loads as normal, sys tray loads, kick start response fine, no hangs e.t.c )
2)I start, chromium, firefox, dolphin, amarok, skype. Each one of them contributes around 20-30MB on plasmashell and the normal addition to total memory, around 1.7-1.9GB
3)Now I close chromium, firefox, dolphin, amarok, skype and I give it sometime.
Plasmashell doesnt fall. Total memery changes back to normal 1.1GB + the increase amount of plasmashell.
4)I kept doing steps 2-3 resulting in increase of plasmashel memoryusage up to 391M around. Then I stopped, as you can imagine it was a boring procedure. Again the total memory usage was the normal plus the increase of plasmashell.
Plasmashell doesn't fall. Also I noticed that, as I write this post, plasmashell keeps slowly build up. Tried it with kate, while I was writing in, the plasmashell slowly build up.
I google it and found out that plasmashell had a memory leak at a) transmission-qt and b) system notification messaging. I don't use transmission so a) is not an issue.
However about the system notification, I disabled the "Show application and system notifications" and "Track file transfer and other jobs". I only noticed a small decrease of the amount the plasmashell builds up.
Also, I went on and used my pc as normal, doing what I do regularly and I noticed an increased amount of plasmashell memory. I was working on netbeans, having amarok and chromium and skype on and despite the expected netbeans memory usage, the plasmashell rised to huge amounts, having total memory usage little over 4GB with only 700MB used for netbeans. This is like Microsoft Windows.
This isn't normal right?
Do I have a broken plasmashell, OS installation or is this happening to others?
Any ideas what to do?
Thanks
Specs:-
Hardware:
AMD 6 core 1100TT black edition
2x Radeon HD 6870
GB 990 FXA UD3+
16GB RAM
Software:
Kubuntu 15.04 fresh install
fglrx-update activated
microcode for amd activated
system up to date
Installed software:
Java 8, netbeans, skype, chromium.
Edit 1: I mistakenly wrote K instead of MB. The amount increased is in MB
Edit 2: I kept doing test and I noticed, every single action I perform adds 20-30 MB. Like, I close chromium, firefox tab, plasmashell gets 20-30MB, I open dolphin, same, I close dolphin without doing anything, another 20-30MB gain, same happens with any application installed.
Edit 3: When memory is getting high, i reboot and its back to normal. I will try to switch memory cards to rule out hardware issue.
as title mentions, plasmashell rises up but doesn't fall. I don't get any error related to this or at all for that matter.
Bellow I will try to describe the problem as thoroughly I can with out giving you headache.
I have default widget and themes, windows, icons, colour e.t.c
1)I boot up and log on on with memory: plasmashell 230M and total memory 1.1GB ( everything loads as normal, sys tray loads, kick start response fine, no hangs e.t.c )
2)I start, chromium, firefox, dolphin, amarok, skype. Each one of them contributes around 20-30MB on plasmashell and the normal addition to total memory, around 1.7-1.9GB
3)Now I close chromium, firefox, dolphin, amarok, skype and I give it sometime.
Plasmashell doesnt fall. Total memery changes back to normal 1.1GB + the increase amount of plasmashell.
4)I kept doing steps 2-3 resulting in increase of plasmashel memoryusage up to 391M around. Then I stopped, as you can imagine it was a boring procedure. Again the total memory usage was the normal plus the increase of plasmashell.
Plasmashell doesn't fall. Also I noticed that, as I write this post, plasmashell keeps slowly build up. Tried it with kate, while I was writing in, the plasmashell slowly build up.
I google it and found out that plasmashell had a memory leak at a) transmission-qt and b) system notification messaging. I don't use transmission so a) is not an issue.
However about the system notification, I disabled the "Show application and system notifications" and "Track file transfer and other jobs". I only noticed a small decrease of the amount the plasmashell builds up.
Also, I went on and used my pc as normal, doing what I do regularly and I noticed an increased amount of plasmashell memory. I was working on netbeans, having amarok and chromium and skype on and despite the expected netbeans memory usage, the plasmashell rised to huge amounts, having total memory usage little over 4GB with only 700MB used for netbeans. This is like Microsoft Windows.
This isn't normal right?
Do I have a broken plasmashell, OS installation or is this happening to others?
Any ideas what to do?
Thanks
Specs:-
Hardware:
AMD 6 core 1100TT black edition
2x Radeon HD 6870
GB 990 FXA UD3+
16GB RAM
Software:
Kubuntu 15.04 fresh install
fglrx-update activated
microcode for amd activated
system up to date
Installed software:
Java 8, netbeans, skype, chromium.
Edit 1: I mistakenly wrote K instead of MB. The amount increased is in MB
Edit 2: I kept doing test and I noticed, every single action I perform adds 20-30 MB. Like, I close chromium, firefox tab, plasmashell gets 20-30MB, I open dolphin, same, I close dolphin without doing anything, another 20-30MB gain, same happens with any application installed.
Edit 3: When memory is getting high, i reboot and its back to normal. I will try to switch memory cards to rule out hardware issue.