It drops off the memory on restart it, but it gets devouring the memory in some varying frequency (say, once in a few days).
In some cases I could not restart it cause it had made the system frozen, so I only had to reboot (through power button).
I couldnt for the life of me figure out why yours was so different and that both were taking so much memory…
Then I realized I have ksysguard not plasma-systemmonitor
So to test…
I didnt let it run anywhere near ‘a few days’, but did not notice it running away.
Depending on your use-case, this may provide a possible alternative though.
But are you on Stable or Testing? I’m on Stable ─ and thus on 5.22.5 ─ but I was told that ksysguard will be dropped in 5.23 in favor of plasma-systemmonitor (which I also have installed).
Note: I myself prefer ksysguard, because plasma-systemmonitor doesn’t find the temperature sensors for my CPUs. I do keep ksysguard running all of the time.
I am on unstable … its still here.
Well … as in its in the repos, wasnt removed or replaced, and runs fine.
(I had to quickly install plasma-systemmonitor to make the post above)
One of the conveniences of my using of plasma-systemmonitor is (compared to ksysguard) that it can group related processes into one entry (as shown in Applications section … Konsole). ksysguard renders all processes independently.