[ale] gnome-terminal memory leak....looking for verification...

[James P. Kinney III]

It may be more of an artifact of kernel 2.4 memory management that a
real bug in gnome-terminal. Let it run until ram is early exhausted.
Then open a large memory application and see if the caching decreases to
allow the new app to run. If it does, then there is no problem (sort
of). If the app can't load well because the memory goes into
swaping/thrashing mode, then there is definitely a bug.

I can't tell from my test as galeon eats up ram and cpu like mad and I
currently have 4 screen with about 6 tabs on each open.

On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 10:35, John Wells wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> Running Red Hat 8.0, I can start gnome-terminal and everything seems
> fine.  However, if I run top in gnome-terminal and let it sit, I watch
> the process slowing consume memory.  It will continue to do this as far
> as I can tell.  I've let it get up to 180 MB before killing it.
> 
> Can anyone who's running Red Hat 8 verify this?  I'm assuming it has
> something to do with the way top redraws the screen.  However, I've only
> been able to duplicate it at home once, so there has to be a specific set
> of things happening that I haven't nailed down.
> 
> Try it by opening gnome-terminal, and then running "top -d 1".  See if the
> gnome-terminal process grows consistently.
> 
> If I were interested in debugging this, what's the best way to go about
> it?  Trying to attach with gdb to see what it's doing (although I assume
> it wasn't compiled with debugging symbols)?
> 
> Also, anyone know if this is a known bug?  I'm planning on submitting
> it, but want to make sure it's not something I missed a patch on
> (although I doubt it, because I use rhn).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
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