Possilble memory leak within kwin_wayland

Hey there. So I recently switched to Bazzite. And as much as I love the OS, after some time of the laptop running, the process Kwin_Wayland seems to start leaking memory. It allocates all of the free RAM, leading to the machine crashing. Here are the specs Ryzen 5 5600H 16GB DDR4 ram Nvidia Geforce GTX 1650 4GB 500GB internal SSD, and a 500GB external ssd, running through a Dell WD19 dock.
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ItzNOEL
ItzNOEL3d ago
Hi bro I might be able to help
Silvey
SilveyOP3d ago
It's related to HDMI being unplugged and plugged. A KDE issue. We need to wait for a fix sadly
ItzNOEL
ItzNOEL3d ago
Oh so it is a bug
Silvey
SilveyOP3d ago
For now, the best way I have, is after each HDMI display switch by my switcher, manually kill kwin_wayland.
ItzNOEL
ItzNOEL3d ago
Isn't kwin essential for plasma desktop
Silvey
SilveyOP3d ago
I need to figure out how to write scripts... Pretty much. But it reboots after getting killed so that's a win. A temporary fix, but better than not knowing what's going on

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