On 2026/03/08 07:44 AM, 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.
Hi Mike,
I think it is used by Konqueror to show the transfer progress when copying files. You can try copy a large amount of files from a remote server and monitor htop to see if the memory usage increases during the copy operation.
Cheers Michele