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Many xfce4 components use a lot of memory. Up to the point where multiple of them use up to 1.5 GB each.

My system has 32 GB Ram. 4 GB of it are reserved for the graphics. Sure I use multiple browsers and many tabs, but 32 GB that are almost fully utilized ?

I have observed this for months. (no logs, manually in task manager). Finally I noticed this:

  • xfce4-panel 1.2 GB
  • xfce libwearther.so 1.2 GB (2 times, because it is running 2 times)
  • xfce libsystemload.so 1.2GB
  • xfce libsystray.so 1.2 GB Unfortunately I didn't take a screenshot there, but I waited a bit and took one when it wasn't quite sooo bad, but still. That's too much or (picture attached) ?

My system almost always runs through. The memory consumption of these XFCE files fluctuates. So it decreases in between. But I have no idea why. I can't find any connection.

If you want me to call any logs or something like that, I'll gladly do it.

$ xfce4-panel --version
xfce4-panel 4.16.3 (Xfce 4.16)

$ uname -r
5.10.49-1-MANJARO

xfce4_memory_usage_July_31_2021