Bug 74748

Summary:	gnome-terminal eats tons of memory
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Heinz Deinhart <heinz>
Component:	vte	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	bhuffman, d.bz-redhat, kb, peter.klotz99, rhladik, shishz
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Description Heinz Deinhart 2002-10-01 13:19:17 UTC

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Description of problem:
gnome-terminal uses very much memory without beeing used a lot

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install rh8 on a new p4 1.8ghz, 256MB RAM, IDE harddrive ~1G swapspace
2.start gnome-terminal
3.make it full-screen
4.hide menubar
5.do something that scrolls a lot
6.see memory be consumend till machine swaps to death

Actual Results:  top output:
  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
  990 root      15   0 1170M 135M  3816 S     0.0 56.0   0:46 gnome-terminal


Expected Results:  i tuned the settings in 7.3 to log a lot, and it did not use
more than a  10-15MB RAM
the 8.0 version uses >1G without default settings

Additional info:

Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-10-01 14:08:38 UTC

What is your scrollback buffer set to?

Comment 2 Heinz Deinhart 2002-10-01 14:47:17 UTC

it is set to 500 lines or(?) 318kb

i did not tweak any system settings, just followed the install procedure,
logged in as root, start gnome system monitor and terminal and typed this:
bash# i=0; while true
do
echo $i
let i++
done

when i reaches 200000 gnome-terminal has used ~80MB of RAM
note that the scrollbuffer seems to already discard lines,
and i can only scroll back 500 lines

so this looks like a memory leak?

Comment 3 Heinz Deinhart 2002-10-01 15:21:55 UTC

i think i just found out something important:
gnome-system-monitor is now at 100MB, too, and still growing
even the gnome-calculator keeps eating memory, when i do resize
the window a lot.

but xterm is definitly working fine.

so maybe this is an issue somewhere in gnome2..

Comment 4 Nalin Dahyabhai 2002-10-18 00:31:28 UTC

If you run "xdpyinfo", is RENDER one of the listed extensions?

Comment 5 Heinz Deinhart 2002-10-18 07:37:17 UTC

no, it is not listed
u can see the full output of xpyinfo here:
http://www.auto.tuwien.ac.at/~heinz/rh8.xdpyinfo

may this is usefull, too:
http://www.auto.tuwien.ac.at/~heinz/rh8.XFree86.0.log

Comment 6 Brian Huffman 2002-10-22 15:08:55 UTC

I also am seeing the same problem.  I have a clean install of RedHat 8.0 w/ an
Intel 845G video Card.  Watching top in one window, I do something in my
gnome-terminal (like compile), and gnome-terminal memory usage continually
increases and will eventually render machine useless.  

I also do *not* have the XRENDER extension enabled.

Comment 7 Mike McLean 2003-01-02 17:34:38 UTC

This bug has been inappropriately marked MODIFIED. Please review the bug life
cycle information at 
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/bug_status.cgi

Changing bug status to ASSIGNED.

Comment 8 Jason Montleon 2003-03-31 20:01:54 UTC

This is also reproducible by doing the following:
Open a gnome-terminal and open 2 additional tabs -OR- open gnome-terminal 3 
times.  Run curl with the command line options as suggested in RHN for 
downloading the isos and start downloading 3 ISO's say RedHat 8 or 9 disc 1 2 
and 3...  After a couple hours you'll be swapping so bad you can't even log in.

Comment 9 Ray Strode [halfline] 2004-06-15 16:04:59 UTC

Are you still experiencing problems with the lastest release?  I
haven't been able to reproduce.

Comment 10 Ray Strode [halfline] 2004-06-15 18:13:04 UTC

*** Bug 75211 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 Heinz Deinhart 2004-06-16 08:20:38 UTC

Do you mean the latest release of gnome-terminal for rh8? Then i do
not know. I stopped using rh8 because of this bug, and switchted from
7.x to FC2 recently. Its Gnome 2.6 Terminal runs flawless.

Comment 12 Ray Strode [halfline] 2004-06-16 19:07:25 UTC

Okay, then I'm going to mark this bug fixed in current release.  If
you encounter the problem again, feel free to reopen it.