[xubuntu-users] xfdesktop high memory usage

[Charles M]

Thanks for the answers. The process disappeared before I could
investigate further. The M82 is a desktop. I've noticed slow downs a
couple of times, but it's been pretty good the past hour while I've
been using Firefox, Remmina, and a couple of terminals. It's strange
because this system is pretty close to a fresh install. There may be
some misbehaving hardware. I haven't run into this issue on my Xubuntu
system at home.

Thanks again for all the replies.



On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 9:45 AM Victor Forberger <vforberger at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> On 8/19/20 8:07 AM, 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?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Charles
> >
>
> What kind of graphics setup with the laptop? What does top say? Does the
> problem repeat after reboot?
>
> You need to figure out if the apparent memory leak is more than one-time
> and whether the leak is connected to hardware.
>
> And, is there a runaway process connected to xfdesktop that is running
> up the memory?
>
> Run top and inxi -b to see if a process is out of control and to get
> basic setup info.
>
> Finally, what does kern.log and syslog say (in /var/log/)?
>
> For viewing log files, see the terminal command discussion in
> https://www.howtogeek.com/117878/how-to-view-write-to-system-log-files-on-ubuntu/
>
> Or, look at the terminal command journalctl, such journalctl -r --system.
>
> - Victor
>
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