I thoroughly thought it worked for a couple of minutes, but then I saw it didn’t. Darn. It still gradually rises up in memory usage, but it’s wayyy slower now. However, programs do not free up memory.
I’m at wits end right now. I have tried so many things, and alot of things people have suggested. My system seems to never free up memory, which causes my memory usage to gradually crawl up. For example, if I get a desktop notification, my Plasma Shell will jump up in usage by 3-10MiB in usage, or if I tab into Discord and use it for a little bit, it’ll jump up by 20-30MiB. This wouldn’t be a problem, except it NEVER goes down. Within 3-4 days, my idle memory use will be >50%, excluding disk cache.
This is an issue, because I frequently play games and use virtual machines on my computer, which causes memory to overflow to Swap and bog down my compter. I’ll list things I have tried to fix this, italicizing solutions that have slightly helped, and bolding ones that have helped a little more.
- Removing the plasma integration addon
- Reinstalling EndeavourOS
- Changing browsers from Firefox
- Removing resource management widgets
- Switching system fonts and themes.
- Shutting down, then rebooting my PC.
I’ll also list some other symptoms my PC has been having. I will bold ones that are more severe in nature.
- Booting from a liveUSB freezes my entire PC within a couple of minutes, regardless if it a EndevOS usb or a debian based one.
- Like I mentioned, memory usage only goes up and never goes down. This means that just by opening some programs, then letting my PC idle for a while increases memory usage. The furthest I have let it go up to was 5.5GiB idle.
- Text in widgets either distort or disappear. I’m not too good at describing things, so I’ll just give an example:
For example:
Normal text: Write 0KiB/s
Distorted text: Wr…0KiB/s
Text that has disappeared: 0KiB/s
- Using heaptrack, my computer is making a ginormous amount of allocations and temporary calls.
- Valgrind reports a tiny amount of leaked memory.
System specs:
RX 5700 XT
Ryzen 2700X
16GB of RAM
This is extremely frustrating for me.