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

[Geoffrey]

Hey John, what version of gnome-terminal?

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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