Bug 787049

Summary:	Plasma-desktop is leaking memory
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Ayden Beeson <abeeson>
Component:	kdebase-workspace	Assignee:	Than Ngo <than>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.2	CC:	tpelka
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Description Ayden Beeson 2012-02-03 02:16:58 UTC

Description of problem:
Plasma desktop, after starting up begins to eat up memory and CPU until it has consumed all available RAM on the server. After additional time it will cause swapping so constantly it will cause the server to crash.

It is also consuming more CPU % than i would expect, @ approx 22% constantly at the time of writing (its currently at 38% for mem consumption)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Qt 4.6.2
KDE 4.3.4
Plasma workspace 0.3


How reproducible:
Every time, after a period of time (3-4 days to get to what its at now) it just started to consume resources, eventually starving the box (around a week or so for that)

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start KDE
2. Allow to run for a few days
3. Observe growing memory and CPU consumption
  
Actual results:
Memory and CPU continue to be used for no reason

Expected results:
Plasma allocates out the memory it needs, may grow a little but should not continue to consume all the resources.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Ayden Beeson 2012-02-03 02:20:32 UTC

Forgot to say, i saw a similar issue on my fedora installs some time ago when they were running a similar / same version of KDE. May be an issue with this version that a new version has resolved. KDE is quite out of date on RHEL.

Comment 4 Suzanne Logcher 2012-02-14 23:30:30 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to
address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to
ask your support representative to propose this request, if
appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. If you would like it considered as an
exception in the current release, please ask your support
representative.

Comment 5 Than Ngo 2012-07-04 17:24:30 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 734734 ***