https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=525856
Bug ID: 525856
Summary: Comic widget repeatedly retries failing feeds, causing
sustained background downloads
Classification: Plasma
Product: plasmashell
Version First master
Reported In:
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: Comic widget
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Target Milestone: 1.0
DESCRIPTION
Hi,
i am a CachyOS user since about a year. On my desktop i also enabled the comics
to see the XKCD and other comics. As of now i am on holidays and on my hotspot.
I was having open btop on the side and have seen a constant download of about
1-2Mbps. i set the wifi to metered and have not seen a decrease in download
traffic. I asked codex for help and to diagnose the problem. The output of the
LLM is at the end attached, because i do not know so many technical terms as
it.
For a comic strip widget with a picture a day i assume it should only take
about 100kB-4000kB per strip per day of download.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
0. open btop or similar to check network traffic.
1. right click on the desktop to edit it. add the comic strip widget.
2. In the widget setting go to add a new strip and search for "nichtlustig" and
"dilbert". add them and enable them.
3. see observed traffic at about 1-2Mbps.
OBSERVED RESULT
1-2Mbps download traffic
EXPECTED RESULT
max 2MB per day trafic.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: CachyOS Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.7.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.29.0
Qt Version: 6.11.2
Kernel Version: 7.2.3-1-cachyos (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.3 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: Intel® UHD Graphics 620
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Output from Codex:
System: CachyOS
Package: kdeplasma-addons 6.7.4-3.1
Feeds: Dilbert 1.8 and Nichtlustig 1.6
With these feeds enabled, the journal repeatedly reports:
"dilbert:2026-09-17" plugin reported an error.
"nichtlustig:2020-06-04" plugin reported an error.
Plasma-owned kioworker processes remained active, with total
Wi-Fi downloads around 250 kB/s on a metered hotspot.
After disabling both feeds while keeping the other comic feeds,
downloads dropped to 7–8 kB/s and the repeated errors stopped.
Expected: Failed feeds should retry with a bounded frequency
and increasing delay, avoiding continuous background downloads.
Both feeds were disabled together, so we have not established
whether one or both independently trigger the problem.
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