- Package:
- plasma-workspace
- Source:
- plasma-workspace
- Description:
- Plasma Workspace for KF5
- Submitter:
- Julien Aubin
- Date:
- 2018-12-30 23:24:03 UTC
- Severity:
- important
Hi, I've remarked that since latest update of Debian (9.2) ksmserver is affected by a massive memory leak. Over one week running it is eating 10 GB of RAM and things are getting up and up. A restart of the KDE session temporarily fixes the issue. My system : Debian 9.2 / AMD64 KDE Intel Core i7 4970 32 GB RAM NVidia GeForce GTX 1070 w/ blob 375.82 Could you please fix it ? Thanks a lot !
Hi! Do you have the wallpaper images changing from time to time? Because there is an upstream bug for that and it could not be solved so far (to the best of my knowledge).
Hi, No I don't. However I saw today a Skype update which could be related to the issue. Cannot recall exactly whether the issue came with Skype update or with 9.2 release. I'll keep you updated with this issue. 2017-11-07 19:22 GMT+01:00 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer < perezmeyer@gmail.com>:
Hi! Do you have the wallpaper images changing from time to time? Because there is an upstream bug for that and it could not be solved so far (to the best of my knowledge).
Hi, No I don't. However I saw today a Skype update which could be related to the issue. Cannot recall exactly whether the issue came with Skype update or with 9.2 release. I'll keep you updated with this issue. 2017-11-07 19:22 GMT+01:00 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer < perezmeyer@gmail.com>:
Hi, Not related to skype. It started again. 13 GB of memory. Looks like at the same time a process named tracker-extract was eating 12 GB memory. Comes from tracker-extract package, used for some indexation. 2017-11-07 19:24 GMT+01:00 Julien Aubin <julien.aubin@gmail.com>:
Hi, Not related to skype. It started again. 13 GB of memory. Looks like at the same time a process named tracker-extract was eating 12 GB memory. Comes from tracker-extract package, used for some indexation. 2017-11-07 19:24 GMT+01:00 Julien Aubin <julien.aubin@gmail.com>:
The leak continues - 200 MB memory / hour. 2017-11-11 10:57 GMT+01:00 Julien Aubin <julien.aubin@gmail.com>:
The leak continues - 200 MB memory / hour. 2017-11-11 10:57 GMT+01:00 Julien Aubin <julien.aubin@gmail.com>:
Hi, It looks like launching 3D video games like American Truck Simulator or other ones tends to trigger the leak. Before launching the game, letting KDE run for one night : 4 GB total memory consumption Yesterday evening, right after closing the game : 5 GB Now (early morning) : 7 GB w/ ksmserver as the top memory consumer 2017-11-11 12:15 GMT+01:00 Debian Bug Tracking System <owner@bugs.debian.org
Another precision is that I start most of these games in windowed mode. 2017-11-23 7:09 GMT+01:00 Debian Bug Tracking System <owner@bugs.debian.org> :
Hi, Looks like an upstream fix has been done for this issue, see https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373274 Could you please backport the fix as it is VERY annoying ? Thanks,
Le mer. 12 déc. 2018 à 20:19, Julien Aubin <jul.aubin@laposte.net> a écrit : The bug is fixed in 5.8.7 and looks like quite a lot of Debian KDE users complain about it, see http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=135222 It is also fixed in testing and so on and has to deal with the way ksmserver handles child process output. The fix seems to be in the following commits : https://cgit.kde.org/plasma-workspace.git/commit/?id=17eeb58ae42596195d6a841c06d17721b7af2c14 https://cgit.kde.org/plasma-workspace.git/commit/?id=0f19e92f3e85d064de9cebf280fa8e085485c2e0 https://cgit.kde.org/plasma-workspace.git/commit/?id=ea3f87c5df0251838da71c473fd7b790c932d8b0 Could you please cherrypick them and put them in stable ? Thanks a lot