I’ve been running into an issue recently where my system will start to stutter and freeze. Going into my task manager (Resources), I can see my using is using roughly 18/32GB of RAM despite closing all apps. Normally I should be at around 2GB on a fresh boot.

I’ve only noticed this issue appearing when first interacting with an app called Newsflash, but the issue persists even after closing the app. I even tried using systemd’s soft-reboot feature and even that did not clear the memory leak. So it seems the memory leak must be in the kernel itself.

And please don’t link linuxatemyram. This is not related to cached data.

  • @akash_rawal
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    37 hours ago

    Check if there’s any large file in /tmp and /run/user/*?

    • Atemu
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      37 hours ago

      Or just generally df -h | grep tmpfs and look for any significant usage.

      • LeafletOP
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        17 hours ago

        All normal

    • LeafletOP
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      17 hours ago

      No large files.