Comment 117 for bug 1502556

(In reply to Elizabeth Myers from comment #103)
> I am having the same problem as André Vitor de Lima Matos. Here's what I
> know:
>
> * Only killing the X server reclaims the memory (killing
> plasmashell/kwin_x11 doesn't release it); it leaks about 5GB per day
Can you try my suggestion please? close all applications including system tray ones after disabling swap. restart kwin_x11/plasma and ctrl+alt+f3 or f4 and then ctrl+alt+f1 back to your X session.
I would like to know if ctrl+alt+f* operations are triggering garbage collection in Xorg.

> * I run infinality
I think infinality patches can cause issues