From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: For a simple CD player, gnome-cd consumes much more memory than is absolutely necessary - even for a simple GTK2 application. gnome-cd, since it is the main selection for Gnome 2, should have its fat trimmed aggressively. From top: 32721 myohe 15 0 16040 11M 7284 S 0.5 1.4 6:02 gnome-cd $ ps ax | grep gnome-cd 32721 ? S 6:02 gnome-cd $ cat /proc/32721/status Name: gnome-cd State: S (sleeping) Tgid: 32721 Pid: 32721 PPid: 1 TracerPid: 0 Uid: 500 500 500 500 Gid: 500 500 500 500 FDSize: 32 Groups: 500 VmSize: 23428 kB VmLck: 0 kB VmRSS: 11328 kB VmData: 8848 kB VmStk: 64 kB VmExe: 100 kB VmLib: 11540 kB SigPnd: 0000000000000000 SigBlk: 0000000080000000 SigIgn: 8000000000001000 SigCgt: 00000003800104f0 CapInh: 0000000000000000 CapPrm: 0000000000000000 CapEff: 0000000000000000 Oddly enough - upon running memprof on gnome-cd, my system locks up until I kill (from a virtual terminal) all associated processes to memprof and gnome-cd. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. see description 2. 3. Actual Results: see description Expected Results: see description Additional info:
Should report this one on http://bugzilla.gnome.org, presumably involves fairly pervasive code changes we would not do in a Red Hat specific patch.