Bug 460553

Summary:	gnome-terminal memory leak
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Adam Stokes <astokes>
Component:	gnome-terminal	Assignee:	Behdad Esfahbod <behdad>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	4.9	CC:	james.brown, riek, tao
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Description Adam Stokes 2008-08-28 15:43:58 UTC

Description of problem:
When opening several terminals (or several tabs) memory is not released once terminal is closed by parent gnome-terminal process

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.4.x-2.7.x

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open 2 terminals or more
2. Open 2 terminals on second terminal open several tabs
3.
  
Actual results:
Memory consumed and not released

Expected results:
no leak

Additional info:
Patches from this bug made it into later version of gnome
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160993

Thanks

Comment 2 Behdad Esfahbod 2008-09-02 18:31:02 UTC

I need to see a specific leak report before doing anything.  A verbal "memory is not released" is worth nothing as far as fixing the code is concerned.  Show me a valgrind leak report.  Ain't gonna fix something not broken.  Definitely not for RHEL4 (or RHEL5 for that matter).

Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2008-09-02 18:39:44 UTC

Development Management has reviewed and declined this request.  You may appeal
this decision by reopening this request.