Hi,
Krita dev version completely fills up my memory, swap and physical. Even when I just start it and just the open file dialog is loaded, memory simply maxes out.
Doing anything else is impossible while using Krita, like using Dolphin or Gwenview.
I do have hundreds of brushes added.

I am assuming the devs are busy with the next release date coming up, just wanted to report.

It seems to depend on what you do with Krita, i.e. the usage patter. I didn't notice any memory leaks when I painted for about 10 hours yesterday, bhen I started investigating https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318652, I noticed that it seemed to have to do with moving about layers in and out of groups.

I haven't been able to figure out where the leak comes from, though.

Hmm, interesting. For me it maxes out even when I am on the first empty dialog for creating files. I think I roughly remember since when it started happening. I will try to roll back to a certain commit and see if changes things.

I tried a few recompiles and I still get pretty much the same results. Got some merging errors tho.
I think this started happening somewhere between 36ea0cac and 140d9406.

Once Krita loads a file it runs fine. I dont use Group layers and stick to 3 to 5 layers anyway. Maybe others are not having similar problems. Dunno.

Hm... We really have to dig in. Would it be possible to report a bug on bugs.kde.org and make available a tarball or zipfile with your .kde/share/config/kritarc and .kde/share/apps/krita ?

> Even when I just start it and just the open file dialog is loaded, memory simply maxes out.

Might be some system issue? Did you updated KDE recently?

Right, its my brushes folder, actually the no. of brushes.
I moved the brushes folder out of the kde/krita/ and Krita runs smoothly. After adding half the brushes, the ram fills up about 50% and if I add all the brushes it maxes out.
I do have lots of brushes, the folder is 114 mb. Mostly photoshop abr files but some are high res brushes.
I think I will file a bug report later today.

Ah, that's clear! Krita loads all the brushes into memory! So be careful with too many high resolution brushes!
And yes, please, report the bug!