On Saturday 07 March 2026 14:44:05 Mike Bird via tde-users wrote:
Can anyone give me some clues about tdeio_uiserver? It appears to be a process forked but not execed from tdeinit.
I've looked at what I presume is the source but there's nothing obvious to me that would use any significant amount of RAM: https://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/tdelibs/tree/tdeio/misc/uiserver.cpp
The process seems to be growing without limit in TDE 14.1.5. I had not noticed such behavior in previous versions of TDE but I do use TDE very heavily and my workload changes over time.
My firefox is also very large but I can restart that to get back some RAM. Restarting firefox does not reduce the size of tdeio_uiserver.
Is there a signal I can send to tdeio_uiserver to tell it to downsize?
I could of course reboot, or logout and login, but that costs me about twenty minutes including putting dozens of firefox windows back where they're supposed to be.
Thanks,
--Mike
Attached: Screenshot of "top" sorted by "RES" column.
If you don't already use it, download and run htop. It often gives me more info about rogue processes that don't seem to make sense in top.
For example, I find that I can kill background processes that don't show up in top, but show up in htop, then the problem child suddenly disappears. One has to use some caution, as you might end up shutting down or freezing your system (happened to me once), but I think you probably know more than I about what not to touch among running processes.
Bill