Comment 56 for bug 1502556

Hello.

I am having same problem on my desktop: plasmashell eats as much memory as is can. I have even spotted 2g consumed in RES column of top.

After reading this bugreport I disabled tray icon for my Psi+ (it uses animated icons) and memory consumption has gone. I can't say that having no icon for IM is very convenient, but at least I don't need to restart plasmashell every day.

So I think this info may be helpful:
• there was an animated tray icon from third-party Qt-4 application (Qt 4.8.6)
• it was definetely "animating" while my session was locked, usually it was blinkig for the whole night
• i am not using any screensavers, just lock screen.
• I had to remove the animated tray icon to eliminate memory consumption
• there is one more tray icon from some KDE application (it says I have updates for my system) which is not animated and seems not to affect plasmashell's memory consumption.

Thank you.