On December 18, 2008, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > On December 18, 2008, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > > On December 18, 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > > On Thursday 18 December 2008, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > > > > I have no idea whats causing it. > > > > > > you and the rest of the people reporting it. ;) > > > > > > > If it helps, I'm using the latest nvidia binary driver > > > > > > define "latest" > > > > Latest beta. > > > > > > While writing this message, its upped to 129MB after switching some > > > > desktops with the pager, and moving the folderview around a little. > > > > > > can you watch the memory usage as you do these things and try and pin > > > it down to exactly what triggers it? e.g. try moving the folderview and > > > see if that affects things; but ONLY move the folderview. dont switch > > > desktops, give focus to windows, etc. as that will trigger chages in > > > the pager and tasks widget. > > > > > > then try switching desktops with the pager ... swapping widows, etc... > > > > > > having an xrestop running in an always-on-top, on-all-desktops konsole > > > window can make this all a bit easier to do. > > > > > > until we track down *some* culprit, it's pretty difficult to start > > > working towards a fix. > > > > So far as I said, switching desktops and moving a folderview around made > > it grow, but regular use (I mostly use the task bars, and the notifier > > likes to pop up a lot) causes the same growth. > > > > > oh, and does this happen if you use the open source driver? > > > > Don't know, using the opensource driver makes my 8800GTS fairly useless. > > I can test it out for a while.. but seems to me if it was a driver leak, > > it wouldn't show up as owned by plasma, instead it'd just make X's > > virt-mem usage increase. > > Draging windows and switching dekstops cause plasma to allocate a bunch of > pixmaps. I assume its the pager plasmoid? Fresh start and I'm up to 1193 > pixmaps, and 50MB in pixmaps. > > Using both 180.11 and 180.16 nvidia betas. I'll try again with the nv > driver in a bit.
Or at least when I see the leak again in the betas.. It can take a while. -- Thomas Fjellstrom tfjellst...@strangesoft.net _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
