KDE Memory consumption

[piorunz]

how do you guys calculate kde ram usage ?

 systemctl --user status plasma-plasmashell.service
● plasma-plasmashell.service - KDE Plasma Workspace
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/plasma-plasmashell.service; disabled; p
reset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Wed 2026-07-15 16:50:33 EEST; 21h ago
 Invocation: cb7ba4f61923451eb5f268091c068ea2
   Main PID: 1255 (plasmashell)
      Tasks: 17 (limit: 57521)
     Memory: 688.6M (peak: 1G)
        CPU: 1min 59.503s
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/[email protected]/session.slice/plasma-plasmashell.service
             ├─  1255 /usr/bin/plasmashell --no-respawn
             └─441300 /usr/lib/kf6/kioworker /usr/lib/qt6/plugins/kf6/kio/desktop.so desktop "" local:/run/user/1000/plasmashellvQMttS.145.kioworker.socket

❯ ps -eo size,pid,user,command --sort -size | grep -E "plasma|kwin|krunner|kscreen" | awk '{hr=$1/1024; printf "%10.2f Mb ", hr; for (i=4; i<=NF; i++) printf "%s ", $i; printf "\n"}'
    795.98 Mb /usr/bin/plasmashell --no-respawn
    347.71 Mb /usr/bin/kwin_wayland --wayland-fd 7 --socket wayland-0 --xwayland-fd 8 --xwayland-fd 9 --xwayland-display :1 --xwayland-xauthority /run/user/1000/xauth_xWScqb --xwayland
    178.80 Mb /usr/bin/plasma-browser-integration-host chrome-extension://cimiefiiaegbelhefglklhhakcgmhkai/
     28.30 Mb /usr/lib/kf6/kioworker /usr/lib/qt6/plugins/kf6/kio/desktop.so desktop local:/run/user/1000/plasmashellvQMttS.145.kioworker.socket
     16.26 Mb /usr/bin/startplasma-wayland
      9.20 Mb /usr/bin/kwin_wayland_wrapper --xwayland
      1.73 Mb /usr/lib/sddm/sddm-helper --socket /tmp/sddm-auth-1a9a7e1d-551f-4a53-8802-51ae7803818b --id 1 --start /usr/lib/plasma-dbus-run-session-if-needed /usr/bin/startplasma-wayland --user vile
      0.53 Mb grep -E plasma|kwin|krunner|kscreen

thats my ram usage.

That's not how you measure desktop environment RAM usage.

 

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this is my ram usage after reboot.