[xubuntu-users] xfdesktop high memory usage

[Chris Green]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 09:07:08AM -0400, Charles M wrote:
> I recently installed Xubuntu 20.04 on a Core i5-3470 with 8GB of RAM
> and noticed that xfdesktop is using more than 70% of the RAM.
> Screenshot:
> 
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JccVQz7y23PanPlyMEFnMKqOlC-DvQCB/view?usp=sharing
> 
> Of note the terminal window with the ps command (71.2% on xfdesktop).
> 
> Has anyone else run into this with 20.04. Running on a Lenovo M82 with
> stock hardware?
> 
Certainly nothing like that usage on my Lenovo Thinkpad running 20.04,
the top ten or so processes were all bits of Firefox (much as
expected), xfdesktop was 15th (or so):-

   1442 chris     0.6 xfdesktop --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 2fa5809cb-ce3d-4766-9f20-1053f095eff4


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Chris Green