Why is Dashboard using up tons of memory and freezing my computer?

I was having this problem on my early 2012 Macbook Pro running Mavericks, and now it is happening on my refurbished late 2013 iMac. I did some research into this and some people were saying that if you run weather apps or similar on Dashboard which constantly update data, it can cause Dashboard to start eating up all your memory. So I ended up disabling Dashboard completely on my Macbook Pro and haven't had any similar issues on that machine. But my iMac has 24 GB of RAM and I'd really like to keep Dashboard running because I like to use it to check the weather or my calendar or use the calculator. Is this a glitch with Mavericks? Has anyone reported this on Yosemite? It's happening more frequently and unless I have Activity Monitor open where I can forcibly quit Dashboard, all my programs start locking up and the whole system becomes unusable and I have to force reset it. You'd think Apple would have fixed this by now. At first I thought it was an issue with my Macbook Pro, but now that I'm seeing the same problems on my blazing fast iMac, I think this is a Mavericks glitch. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Running OSX 10.9.5 on a late 2013 iMac with 24 GB of RAM, 3.5 Ghz i7 processor, and 4GB Geforce GTX 780 card.

So it looks like the removal of the .plist file didn't fix the problem. I am starting to notice a potential correlation though. I've been keeping Activity Monitor open to check the status of Dashboard to try and catch it before it overloads the memory. It seems that the issue arises generally when the CPU is undertaking an intensive task. Recently I caught Dashboard overloading the memory while I was doing some intensive video compression. The iMac's internal fans started whirring so I went into Activity Monitor initially to see how much memory the compression software was using up. That's when I saw Dashboard starting to eat away memory, and it kept increasing more and more. The compression software was only using about a gig of memory (though a fairly high % of the CPU) while Dashboard steadily increased to 4, 5, 6 gigs and so on. Even after the compression software was done and the CPU started to cool down, Dashboard continued to eat memory. I've attached two screenshots (before compression was done and after) and you'll notice the memory usage of Dashboard (the video compressor was using the ffmpeg process listed)
Here are some system notes I grabbed from Dashboard in one of the tabs from Activity Monitor by double clicking on the process. Maybe these will help solve the problem?
/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/DashboardClient.app/Con tents/MacOS/DashboardClient
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DashboardClient.framework/Versions/A/Dashboard Client
/usr/share/icu/icudt51l.dat
/System/Library/Keyboard Layouts/AppleKeyboardLayouts.bundle/Contents/Resources/AppleKeyboardLayouts-L.d at
/System/Library/Caches/com.apple.IntlDataCache.le.kbdx
/private/var/db/mds/messages/se_SecurityMessages
/System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Generic Gray Gamma 2.2 Profile.icc
/System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/sRGB Profile.icc
/System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Generic Gray Profile.icc
/Library/Widgets/Unit Converter.wdgt/DB LCD Temp-Black.ttf
/Users/Philip/Library/Caches/com.apple.dashboard.client/Cache.db-shm
/Library/Widgets/Calendar.wdgt/Calendar.widgetplugin/Contents/MacOS/Calendar
/Library/Widgets/Unit Converter.wdgt/UC-LCD.ttf
/Library/Widgets/Unit Converter.wdgt/ConverterPlugin.widgetplugin/Contents/MacOS/ConverterPlugin
/Library/Widgets/Dictionary.wdgt/Dictionary.widgetplugin/Contents/MacOS/Dictiona ry
/System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Generic RGB Profile.icc
/System/Library/Fonts/HelveticaNeue.dfont
/System/Library/Fonts/Times.dfont
/System/Library/Fonts/LucidaGrande.ttc
/Library/Fonts/Baskerville.ttc
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreUI.framework/Versions/A/Resources/ArtFile. bin
/System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.fram ework/Versions/A/Resources/Extras2.rsrc
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreUI.framework/Versions/A/Resources/SArtFile .bin
/Library/Fonts/Futura.ttc
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Calculate.framework/Versions/A/Calculate
/System/Library/Fonts/Helvetica.dfont
/private/var/folders/lz/xymjhj3955l_05603k8kp14m0000gp/C/com.apple.LaunchService s-044502.csstore
/dev/null
/dev/null
/dev/null
count=2, state=0x2
/Users/Philip/Library/Caches/com.apple.dashboard.client/Cache.db
/Users/Philip/Library/Caches/com.apple.dashboard.client/Cache.db
/Users/Philip/Library/Caches/com.apple.dashboard.client/Cache.db-wal
/Users/Philip/Library/Caches/com.apple.dashboard.client/Cache.db-shm
/Users/Philip/Library/Widgets
/Applications
FNetwork.defaultStorageSession
/Users/Philip/Library/Caches/com.apple.dashboard.client/Cache.db-wal
/Users/Philip/Applications
->0x4a5646e02860346f
->0x4a5646e02860427f
/Library/Widgets
/System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.fram ework/Versions/A/Resources/Extras2.rsrc

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