Bug 79723 – gnome-terminal consumes all memory

Bug 79723 - gnome-terminal consumes all memory

Summary:	gnome-terminal consumes all memory

Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 76219

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	Xft (Show other bugs)
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Version:	8.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Owen Taylor
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Reported:	2002-12-16 01:38 EST by John Newbigin
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:38 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2006-02-21 13:50:21 EST
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Description John Newbigin 2002-12-16 01:38:37 EST

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003

Description of problem:
quite frequently, gnome-terminal starts consuming memory, causing the machine to
start grinding the swap and running like a dog.  If you can manage to switch
back to the console and run top, gnome-terminal is using over 600M of ram.  Some
time later, gnome terminal dies, along with any children.

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How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.run gnome-terminal
2.wait
    

Actual Results:  gnome-terminal dies.  I don't know if it dies it's self or
something (the kernel) kills it.

Expected Results:  gnome-terminal can run forever with no memory leaks.

Additional info:

The problem does not seem to be triggered by the user.  When I was using an X
application launched from gnome-terminal, it started and killed not only
gnome-terminal but the app I was using :(

Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-12-16 13:30:53 EST

All Xft apps (GTK2 or Qt3) do this if you don't have RENDER extension 
for your X server.

Try the test fix packages at ftp://people.redhat.com/hp/testing/

Comment 2 Owen Taylor 2003-01-07 15:48:30 EST


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

Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 13:50:21 EST

Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.

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