FYI, this is fixed in Bionic running the latest NVidia drivers and KDE version.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-384 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1756997 Title: plasmashell leaks memory uncontrollably Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-384 package in Ubuntu: New Status in plasma-workspace package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I'm not sure if this is a problem with the plasmashell executable itself, or the the nvidia libraries, or perhaps plasmashell not interacting with the nvidia libraries correctly, but for the past several months I've noticed that the memory usage of plasmashell creeps slowly and consistently upward the longer it is running. This is at the level for me that within a day or two after (re)starting it, it is taking up all of my 12 gigs of ram and my my swap space engages and my system starts thrashing to the point that it takes minutes to get to a console to killall plasmashell. If I'm not sure if I'll even get to that point, I do SysRq+F (Sometimes it locks up completely -- presumably due to a kernel panic -- if I don't catch the extensive thrashing before too long, but that's a secondary issue.) This problem began several months ago (I was sort of expecting someone would quickly patch it, so I lived with it for a bit) so unfortunately I can't point to a specific version number. I did run apport-valgrind on plasmashell (output to be attached), which is what implicates the nvidia drivers. Happy to provide any additional information requested or to try other versions of these applications. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: plasma-workspace 4:5.10.5-0ubuntu1 [modified: usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breeze.desktop/contents/lockscreen/LockScreenUi.qml] ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-37.42-generic 4.13.13 Uname: Linux 4.13.0-37-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.7 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Mon Mar 19 15:48:15 2018 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-01-06 (2264 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111011) SourcePackage: plasma-workspace UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2014-12-03 (1202 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-384/+bug/1756997/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
