The problem is actually kwin-wayland, kwin5 on X11 was very frgual, where both kwin5 and kwin6 on Wayland eat vram for breakfast. Right now my desktop is using 4535MiB, the biggest user being plasmashell itself at 1120MiB
It’s not actually a wayland problem though and If I really wanted I’d of dropped back to X11 when I was still running plasma5 - but Wayland brings more solutions to the table than problems.
According to a quick search I did, there is (was?) an issue causing excessive memory usage by Wayland compositors with Nvidia’s driver; there’s a manual fix listed at my link. Is there any chance that you’re using Nvidia hardware?
The problem is actually kwin-wayland, kwin5 on X11 was very frgual, where both kwin5 and kwin6 on Wayland eat vram for breakfast. Right now my desktop is using 4535MiB, the biggest user being plasmashell itself at 1120MiB
It’s not actually a wayland problem though and If I really wanted I’d of dropped back to X11 when I was still running plasma5 - but Wayland brings more solutions to the table than problems.
https://lemmy.today/post/30379016/16636854
According to a quick search I did, there is (was?) an issue causing excessive memory usage by Wayland compositors with Nvidia’s driver; there’s a manual fix listed at my link. Is there any chance that you’re using Nvidia hardware?