Bug 73332 - gnome-terminal leaks memory rapidly
Summary: gnome-terminal leaks memory rapidly
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 76219
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: vte
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-09-03 04:26 UTC by Damien Miller
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:46 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 18:49:34 UTC
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Description Damien Miller 2002-09-03 04:26:56 UTC
Description of Problem:

gnome-terminal leaks memory in proportion to the amount of output it displays

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

gnome-terminal-2.0.1-3
vte-0.8.8-1

How Reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start gnome-terminal
2. run "top"
3. press "M" to sort by memory
4. Hold down space-bar to cause lots of output

Actual Results:

a single gnome-terminal rapidly grows past 80M RSS

Expected Results:

An order of magnitude less

Additional Information:
	
This is not bug #73226 - my blinking cursor is already disabled

Comment 1 Damien Miller 2002-09-03 08:12:55 UTC
This is not improved by vte-0.8.13-1 from rawhide

Comment 2 Richard Torkar 2002-09-03 15:30:47 UTC

Hmm I'm trying to do the same here and it doesn't work as you say.
My gnome-terminal is constantly sitting on 10MB RSS

rpm -q gnome-terminal vte gives this:
gnome-terminal-2.0.1-3
vte-0.8.8-1

Comment 3 Damien Miller 2002-09-05 01:27:55 UTC
I tried resetting gnome-terminal to defaults, but I still get it leaking. This
is after about 30 seconds in "top" with the spacebar held down to force it to
update quickly:

  PID USER PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM  TIME COMMAND
1865 djm   15   0  118M 118M  6640 R     3.5 49.1   0:12 gnome-terminal


Comment 4 Havoc Pennington 2002-09-05 02:01:03 UTC
there's at least a 0.8.15 that should be appearing soon if it hasn't.

Comment 5 Damien Miller 2002-09-16 00:12:55 UTC
vte-0.8.14-1 doesn't help either

Comment 6 Need Real Name 2002-09-19 22:06:44 UTC
I have the same problem (gnome-terminal using up all my memory) when I use
anti-aliased fonts.  gnome-terminal behaves correctly when using the
"monochrome" font setting.  Perhaps this gives some indication where the problem
is ... I surely hope so.


Comment 7 Jordan Russell 2002-10-02 23:38:26 UTC
I see the same bevahior as rh under Red Hat 8.0.

But this doesn't seem to be limited to gnome-terminal. I see similar leaks in 
other apps, like gedit, when anti-aliasing is enabled. Not good!

Comment 8 Nalin Dahyabhai 2002-10-18 00:30:14 UTC
If you run "xdpyinfo", is RENDER one of the listed extensions?

Comment 9 Jordan Russell 2002-10-18 00:57:59 UTC
In my case, no.

I'm running under VMware 3.2 in case it matters...

Comment 10 Need Real Name 2002-10-19 12:52:51 UTC
No RENDER extension here either.

Video card is a I830 (in a laptop)

Cheers and good hunting
Tycho

Comment 11 Nalin Dahyabhai 2003-05-30 23:08:39 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 76219 ***

Comment 12 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:49:34 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.


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