I also see this memory leak with the nvidia driver v346 and the nouveau driver as well, so no difference here for me. What we need is a backport of these two patches mentioned in this KDE bug report:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344879#c122 otherwise plasmashell will continue to eat more and more memory with every plasma screen update, like opening a plasmoid, systray item menu, etc. I tried Fedora 24, which is build against QT 5.6 and it does not suffer from this problem. ** Bug watch added: KDE Bug Tracking System #344879 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344879 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to plasma-workspace in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1587635 Title: also, in kde 5.6.4 from backports - plasmashell memory leak To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plasma-workspace/+bug/1587635/+subscriptions -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
