On Saturday 07 of March 2026 23:44:05 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.
Hi Mike,
I can confirm that in a few cases I have also observed high memory consumption in tdeio_uiserver. For now I have not put more effort into investigating the cause. I simply killed the process because a new instance is started as soon as needed.
Cheers Slávek --