Hi,
during the years, XFCE seems to become heavier and heavier, even if I use the same configuration.
On a default XFCE session (except for the leak with the power manger, previously reported) , XFCE uses around 200 mb of RAM.
My current configuration uses around 500 mb, a lot more
[salome@salome Scrivania]$ sudo ps_mem
[sudo] password di salome:
Private + Shared = RAM used Program
312.0 KiB + 152.5 KiB = 464.5 KiB lvmetad
364.0 KiB + 108.5 KiB = 472.5 KiB rtkit-daemon
400.0 KiB + 79.0 KiB = 479.0 KiB crond
680.0 KiB + 31.0 KiB = 711.0 KiB ssh-agent
804.0 KiB + 206.0 KiB = 1.0 MiB gvfsd-metadata
880.0 KiB + 150.5 KiB = 1.0 MiB dconf-service
1.0 MiB + 155.5 KiB = 1.2 MiB xfconfd
1.0 MiB + 254.5 KiB = 1.2 MiB at-spi-bus-launcher
648.0 KiB + 616.5 KiB = 1.2 MiB Xsession
1.0 MiB + 251.0 KiB = 1.3 MiB at-spi2-registryd
1.3 MiB + 97.5 KiB = 1.4 MiB gpg-agent
1.1 MiB + 448.5 KiB = 1.5 MiB gvfsd
1.3 MiB + 311.0 KiB = 1.6 MiB gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor
1.1 MiB + 628.0 KiB = 1.7 MiB bash
1.6 MiB + 207.5 KiB = 1.8 MiB ntpd
1.4 MiB + 504.5 KiB = 1.9 MiB gvfsd-trash
1.2 MiB + 706.5 KiB = 1.9 MiB systemd-logind
1.5 MiB + 580.0 KiB = 2.1 MiB gvfs-afc-volume-monitor
2.1 MiB + 660.5 KiB = 2.8 MiB sudo
2.9 MiB + 200.0 KiB = 3.1 MiB gvfs-mtp-volume-monitor
2.4 MiB + 906.0 KiB = 3.3 MiB cupsd
2.6 MiB + 831.5 KiB = 3.4 MiB gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor
2.6 MiB + 886.0 KiB = 3.5 MiB polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
2.7 MiB + 870.0 KiB = 3.5 MiB xfce4-mime-helper
2.8 MiB + 912.0 KiB = 3.7 MiB xfce4-notifyd
3.2 MiB + 857.5 KiB = 4.0 MiB dbus-daemon (4)
2.9 MiB + 1.2 MiB = 4.0 MiB lightdm (2)
3.9 MiB + 547.5 KiB = 4.5 MiB systemd-udevd
4.5 MiB + 532.5 KiB = 5.1 MiB ModemManager
5.2 MiB + 186.0 KiB = 5.4 MiB gvfsd-fuse
4.4 MiB + 1.1 MiB = 5.5 MiB udisksd
5.2 MiB + 605.5 KiB = 5.8 MiB systemd-journald
6.8 MiB + 427.0 KiB = 7.2 MiB colord
6.7 MiB + 1.0 MiB = 7.7 MiB light-locker
6.9 MiB + 1.2 MiB = 8.1 MiB panel-6-systray
7.3 MiB + 1.1 MiB = 8.3 MiB xfce4-session
4.4 MiB + 4.4 MiB = 8.7 MiB systemd (3)
7.4 MiB + 1.6 MiB = 9.0 MiB NetworkManager
8.7 MiB + 960.5 KiB = 9.7 MiB pulseaudio
8.5 MiB + 1.8 MiB = 10.2 MiB panel-5-datetim
9.2 MiB + 1.0 MiB = 10.3 MiB xfsettingsd
11.5 MiB + 2.3 MiB = 13.7 MiB panel-2-actions
11.7 MiB + 2.2 MiB = 13.8 MiB xfce4-clipman
11.6 MiB + 2.2 MiB = 13.9 MiB panel-16-places
14.4 MiB + 446.5 KiB = 14.8 MiB polkitd
14.2 MiB + 2.9 MiB = 17.1 MiB xfce4-terminal
14.4 MiB + 2.8 MiB = 17.2 MiB panel-9-pulseau
14.5 MiB + 2.9 MiB = 17.4 MiB xfce4-panel
15.5 MiB + 3.0 MiB = 18.6 MiB pamac-tray
15.9 MiB + 3.4 MiB = 19.4 MiB panel-1-whisker
17.8 MiB + 3.2 MiB = 21.0 MiB nm-applet
20.3 MiB + 2.8 MiB = 23.1 MiB applet.py
23.1 MiB + 1.2 MiB = 24.3 MiB systemd-resolved
24.9 MiB + 2.9 MiB = 27.7 MiB xfdesktop
32.7 MiB + 14.6 MiB = 47.3 MiB xfwm4
35.4 MiB + 12.9 MiB = 48.2 MiB Xorg
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497.0 MiB
Is the same thing happening to you? This configuration once used to consume 380 mb of RAM…