Bug 73226

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Description of problem:
Long sessions with gnome-terminal open will consume a very large portion of the
available system memory.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
The easiest method to see the allocation happen while Gnome Terminal is active
is to use "memprof" - otherwise, leave a couple terminal sessions open and
browse "top" once in a while.

1.  From the run box type "memprof gnome-terminal"
2.  Once memprof is running, do a couple things in gnome-terminal (list a
directory, run "top" - things to fill the scrollback buffer).
3.  Exit all running applications so that only the shell is running (go back to
the prompt).
4.  Switch back to memprof and allow gnome-terminal to run idle.  Two
allocations are made about every second the terminal is idle.
	

Actual Results:  After running a gnome-terminal session (even worse if multiple
sessions are open an idle), gnome-terminal will continue to allocate memory
until swap is depleted (six gnome-terminal sessions on my machine after a few
days ate 160+M of physical memory and 950+M of swap).

Expected Results:  gnome-terminal should only allocate memory necessary for its
operation and its scrollback buffer.

Additional info:

Red Hat Linux 7.3.94 (null) beta
System is up2date
gnome-terminal package is 2.0.1-3

384M physical
1G swap