I see something similar. After 12h running without any action on my part (during the night), plasmashell went from ~130MB of RAM to ~2GB, with a constant 2% usage of CPU.
x64 Kubuntu 16.04 plasma-workspace : 4:5.5.5.2-0ubuntu1 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1502556 Title: major memory leak on plasmashell To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plasma-workspace/+bug/1502556/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
