#plasma 6 uses 3 to 3.5 gigs of ram

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swift imp
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any help?

velvet owl
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reboot your computer. It should be about 650 MB on idle, fresh.

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check with both top and with htop on the Used amount, right after reboot.

swift imp
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what? how do i do that

velvet owl
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just type the highlighted words in terminal. one only per time.

trim dome
cold rivet
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i mean if you have a high amount of ram it is probably just caching a lot of stuff and will free up when needed

cerulean pilot
trim dome
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Turn off baloo

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Bets on baloo taking all of your RAM and CPU

swift imp
swift imp
velvet owl
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that utility is in just about every linux distro ever.

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then look at the 'used' memory value near the top lines

swift imp
velvet owl
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what is the operating system u are using?

swift imp
velvet owl
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install htop

swift imp
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ok

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still 3 gigs

velvet owl
swift imp
velvet owl
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you may want to use the KDE System Monitor to look at the processes, and sort by memory order (RSS)

velvet owl
swift imp
velvet owl
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so you just rebooted very, very recently right?

swift imp
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yes

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why?

velvet owl
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check the processes

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see which one is hogging all the memory

swift imp
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top 3 is: 1:plasmashell 2:baloo file extractor 3:plasma system monitor

velvet owl
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in the KDE system monitor, there is likely an option to "Show Processes from ALL USERS" . ensure that is on.

swift imp
velvet owl
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right click baloo: then "kill process"

swift imp
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ok 👍

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it keeps coming back

velvet owl
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ah

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see if u can do a sort.. sort by 'tree'. that will show any other associated processes or threads that baloo is working with.

swift imp
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its only baloo_file_extractor

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in baloo_file

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ok i managed to do what you said me to do but the ram usage is the same

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so i killed something called "calendar reminders" and ram usage is down by like, 600 mbs

velvet owl
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quite strange. try just using the system how you need it. it may adapt

swift imp
swift imp
velvet owl
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notes /alarms in the kde calendar

swift imp
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i see

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i dont really need it then, right?

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right?

finite jungle
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This can (but not must) be shitty Software with memory leaks in it. Maybe some unclean programmmed plugins or addons too. Btw. I wonder about a function found in Cinnamon Desktop named "Restart Cinnamon if it takes more than 2 Gigabytes Memory" This leave me as a software developer back with some serious questions!

trim dome