On Thursday, 30 April 2020 21:14:05 BST Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > <<<SNIP>>> > > When it did this the other day, I closed all my programs so I could > > logout, reset and log back in again. After I hit logout, I noticed the > > little memory usage meter on the bottom of my screen was down to a more > > normal level. It was already logging me out so to late to stop it. It > > seems that it dropped after I closed Firefox. I tend to have two > > profiles running and they use quite a bit of memory on their own. The > > new thing is sddm using this much as well. Could Firefox have some > > effect on this?? > > > > <<<SNIP>>> > > Any ideas? > > > > Dale > > > > :-) :-) > > Ignore the part about Firefox. I noticed it was up to about 4.3GBs or > 13.5% again and closed all my browsers. After that was done and it > settled a bit, it was using the same amount of memory. Closing my > browsers has no effect on it's memory usage. Logging out and back in > again, back to normal. I'm sure it will start rising again tho. > > Still curious to see if anyone else has this issue or has a idea on how > to fix it. > > Thanks. > > Dale > > :-) :-)
I'm running stable here and have not noticed sddm eating up much memory on a
single user PC with 16G RAM. I'm not running FF at this moment, but Kmail,
plus a tonne of akonadi sql processes, plus gkrellms. However, sddm shouldn't
be consuming much RAM beyond passing authentication credentials to X and
starting a session, dynamically pulling in dbus & syslog.
My sddm config has not been changed from defaults, but I have switched the
theme to Elarun via Plasma's SystemSettings. I use no icon for avatar. The X
session memory usage changes, but sddm is pretty much stable from what I
observed.
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 3822 0.0 0.0 136480 15324 ? Ssl 15:37 0:00 /usr/bin/sddm
root 3888 4.1 0.5 1384204 85148 tty7 Ssl+ 15:37 1:42 /usr/bin/X -
nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/sddm/{long_string_here} -background none -noreset
-displayfd 17 -seat seat0 vt7
sddm 3961 0.0 0.0 4552 2264 ? S 15:37 0:00 dbus-launch
--autolaunch long_string_here --binary-syntax --close-stderr
sddm 3962 0.0 0.0 3868 1948 ? Ss 15:37 0:00 /usr/bin/
dbus-daemon --syslog-only --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
root 4030 0.0 0.0 54516 14020 ? S 15:38 0:00 /usr/libexec/
sddm-helper --socket /tmp/sddm-auth0472070a-360a-4d6f-9715-b06b8f18b464 --id 1
--start /usr/bin/startplasma-x11 --user michael
michael 10000 0.0 0.0 7964 752 pts/1 S+ 16:18 0:00 /bin/grep -E
--colour=auto --color=auto USER|sddm
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