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

[Mike Lockhart]

I'm running 2.0.1 and haven't had any memory issues with it so far. 
I've had several terminals with tabs open for several days, and each
terminal doesn't take up more than 2.5-3mb of memory.

- mike

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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