I’ve been trying to find reasons as to why it is eating so much ram, it sometimes happens at random or when i check my videos folder, i do not have a network drive, i do not have large ammounts of videos that need thumbanils to generate for, i even disabled the thumbnail generation
That’s the thumbnail generation that make this kio/thumbnail.so.
What is the kind of network mount ? using smb:// or nfs:// urls or fstab/udisks mount ?
If you use mount please detail the mountpoints.
That’s half expected if you use thumbnails for remote files, the files need to be copied unless you have kio-fuse installed in the case of smb:// or nfs:// or read completely over the network in the nfs/smb mount cases.
But once the videos are copied and thumbnails are generated this shouldn’t stay in memory, they should be cached on disk only.
There is probably a bug afoot, a mem-leak or a non-release of memory.
The versions that matter here are KDE Gears (kio-extras) and KDE Frameworks (kio).
We’d need precise reproducible steps to investigation.
i even disabled the thumbnail generation
Where ? In the preview settings for remote files, or for the directory ?
