Comment 68 for bug 1502556

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In , Spamkill (spamkill) wrote :

(In reply to David Edmundson from comment #50)
> >Also, I was able to run a few "layman" tests, and can confirm that when I have neither owncloud client nor qsynergy in the tray, the memory usage stays sane.
>
> I think we can be pretty sure it happens with certain system tray icons.
>
> qbittorrent spits out TootltipChanged signals once a second, the others
> probably do the same. Which means if there is even a tiny leak updating
> SNIs, it will fill up pretty quickly.
>
> Though, I still can't reproduce locally, and valgrind showed everything
> being fine.
>
> There was a fix in Qt > 5.4.1 to some QtDBus memory allocation.
>
> Can someone confirm they still have it with that version of Qt?
>
> Can people start a list of what apps trigger this, maybe we can find a
> useful pattern.
>
> Finally, could someone with a leak capture the dbus traffic on their system
> whilst the memory is increasing.
> ideally with bustle, or worst case dbus-monitor. Note these may contain
> personal information from whatever else is running, so be careful before
> sending.

David, transmission-qt on Arch Linux with all latest plasma and Qt-5.4.2, is still increasing RAM as before, as I enable Prefs>Desktop>"Show Transmission icon in the notification area". Disabling it stops it.

Have not tried bustle, however notice that it is in the AUR. Please post how to use and grab what/where the information you need.

Thanks