I think that plasma-desktop is leaking memory om my machine.

From what I understand is are all plasmoids running in the same application. A leaking plasmoid would destroy the desktop???

I do not run that many plasmoids but I like the ones I use:
lancelot
windowlist
gmail-plasmoid
pager
lock/logout
systray
digitalclock
device notifier
system load viewer

I have had my destop running for a week and not it looks like this (top shift-M):

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2525 johan     20   0 2439m 1.4g  22m S    0 17.7 125:26.46 plasma-desktop                                                                                                             

Is there a way to restart plasma-desktop and free memory? And most importantly i need to find the culprit... any ideas?

mcNisse wrote: Is there a way to restart plasma-desktop and free memory?

You can quit plasma-desktop by typing "kquitapp plasma-desktop" in the console and start again with "plasma-desktop".

what might be interesting is to run the individual plasmoids with plamoidviewer and check the memory consumption there after some time..

That sounds interesting. I'll try that.

I restarted plasma today and I found that I had the comic strip plasmoid, note and a folderviews on a activities that I didn't use.

I tested systemload monitor, windowlist, systray and lancelot with plasmoidviewer. They were smaller after I had left them alone for an hour

I think that the problem was with one of the plasmoids that I removed.
I have been logged in since April 30 and the memory consumption is at a reasonable level, at least compared to it previous behavior.

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19929 johan     20   0  911m 134m  23m S    0  1.7 117:55.00 plasma-desktop