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Absurd memory usage caused by kwin (61.2G of memory and 8G of swap) #234

@joe-bpk

Description

@joe-bpk

Symptom
Absurd memory usage caused by kwin, causing my system to break

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How to Reproduce
I have no idea how to reproduce this bug and I am not entirely sure if it is krohnkite's fault.

Here is my system info:

Expected behavior
A concise description of what you expected to happen.

Environment

  • Distro: Fedora 41
  • KWin version: [6.2.1]
  • Krohnkite version: [0.9.8.5]
  • List of KWin scripts in use: [just Krohnkite]

Notes
This has only happend once but it is quite bad.

Here is my other system info:

[j@fedora ~]$ fastfetch --localip-show-ipv4 false -l none
j@fedora

OS: Fedora Linux 41 (Workstation Edition) x86_64
Host: 20M90017UK (ThinkPad P52)
Kernel: Linux 6.13.9-200.fc41.x86_64
Uptime: 4 days, 3 mins
Packages: 8167 (rpm), 51 (flatpak)
Shell: bash 5.2.32
Display (MSI4CB0): 2560x1440 @ 144 Hz in 27" [External]
Display (CMN15E8): 1920x1080 @ 60 Hz in 16" [Built-in] *
DE: KDE Plasma 6.2.1
WM: KWin (Wayland)
WM Theme: Klassy
Theme: Breeze (Classic) [Qt], Adwaita-dark [GTK2/3]
Icons: breeze [Qt], HighContrast [GTK2], breeze [GTK3/4]
Font: Noto Sans (10pt) [Qt], Red Hat Text (12pt) [GTK2], Noto Sans (10pt) [GTK3/4]
Cursor: breeze (24px)
Terminal: alacritty 0.15.1
Terminal Font: alacritty (11.25pt)
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8850H (12) @ 4.30 GHz
GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro P2000 Mobile [Discrete]
GPU 2: Intel UHD Graphics 630 @ 1.15 GHz [Integrated]
Memory: 7.50 GiB / 62.53 GiB (12%)
Swap: 4.65 GiB / 8.00 GiB (58%)
Disk (/): 317.39 GiB / 466.38 GiB (68%) - btrfs
Disk (/mnt/d): 36.38 GiB / 97.66 GiB (37%) - fuseblk
Battery (01AV496): 96% [AC Connected]
Locale: en_GB.UTF-8

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