KDE Plasma 5.7 Beta Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDE Plasma 5.7 Beta Released

KDE developers quietly released the Plasma 5.7 beta on Thursday for offering a new glimpse at the experience ahead of its official debut in July...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-Plasma-5.7-Beta

[wdb974]

Alright, this is the right one this time around. xD

Can't wait!!!

[birdie]

I still wonder why Plasma eats memory like crazy.

This is a new session with zero applications or plasmoids running.

Over 600MB of RAM eaten: http://i.imgur.com/7ZuZYyL.png

KDE developers simply don't care - of course, they usually have at least 16 gigs of RAM.

Edit: for all those crazy geniuses below: I ran `echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' before taking this screenshot, which means 600MB of RAM are occupied and cannot be removed from main system memory. Not a chance. And I didn't pay attention to the VIRT column, idiots. If I had counted it, I would have come with 5GB of RAM occupied. In short, you're all bloody stupid trolls who don't understand shit about memory management. Now f*ck off.

Edit 2: For blind and retarded people, let me repeat "ZERO plasmoids running". In fact download http://files.kde.org/neon/images/neo...le-current.iso and test it yourself.

[schmidtbag]

I still wonder why Plasma eats memory like crazy.

This is a new session with zero applications or plasmoids running.

Over 600MB of RAM eaten: http://i.imgur.com/7ZuZYyL.png

KDE developers simply don't care - of course, they usually have at least 16 gigs of RAM.

Uh... I don't get that issue and never have. I've been using KDE for about 4 years now and plasma never takes up that much memory. It's probably just a specific plasmid. If it's a 3rd party one, then the KDE devs have no obligation to fix that leak. Also, unless you actually posted a bug report, of course they're not going to care about something that isn't brought to their attention.

[StefanBruens]

I still wonder why Plasma eats memory like crazy.

This is a new session with zero applications or plasmoids running.

Over 600MB of RAM eaten: http://i.imgur.com/7ZuZYyL.png

KDE developers simply don't care - of course, they usually have at least 16 gigs of RAM.

Apparently you are not able to read. Your own screenshot lists ~300 MB used, plus ~300 MB buffer/cache.

Any sizes in the "VIRT" column are irrelevant for actual memory usage, as this also includes any memory mapped files, shared libraries, unused heap space, shared buffers (e.g. pulseaudio buffers).

[andre30correia]

I still wonder why Plasma eats memory like crazy.

This is a new session with zero applications or plasmoids running.

Over 600MB of RAM eaten: http://i.imgur.com/7ZuZYyL.png

KDE developers simply don't care - of course, they usually have at least 16 gigs of RAM.

600mb is to much this days? I don't agree

[tessio]

Is it possible to have Qt 5.5 and 5.6 on the same machine? Apparently 5.6 corrects a lot of bugs, so I wonder if Kubuntu devs will backport Qt 5.6 to Xenial via PPA.

[cj.wijtmans]

Anyone else having issues with their audio volume systray applet? i dont see apps.

[wargames]

After more than 10 years and it still looks like shit, as always.

[M@GOid]

I still wonder why Plasma eats memory like crazy.

This is a new session with zero applications or plasmoids running.

Over 600MB of RAM eaten: http://i.imgur.com/7ZuZYyL.png

KDE developers simply don't care - of course, they usually have at least 16 gigs of RAM.

Well, I'm using stock Kubuntu 16.04 in a Thinkpad T430, and Plasma is at ~90MB. But what is really eating my RAM is a bug in mysqld that inflates it to 800MB or so, in both this note and my desktop at home.

EDIT:
The msqld is a known bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...i/+bug/1576930

So I removed Akonadi (didn't need it anyway) and Amarok, because it has a bug with the playlist anyway, and Mysql. Using qmmp as a substitute (with the Simple User Interface) and now things are back to normal.