From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 Description of problem: I am having problems in runlevel 5 with my terminal window. I launch the system monitor application and keep an eye on it as I work in my terminal window (gnome terminal). After launching gnome terminal I cd to a directory where I am working and I bzcat a large tar file. I can see the gnome terminal consuming more and more memory. I issue some commands to make an application and I can see gnome terminal consuming upwards of 650 MB of memory (I have 256 MB of RAM). At this point the CPU% for kswapd is above 50% and the screen becomes unresponsive. Mouse clicks, keyboard, Ctrl-Alt-F1, F2, F3, F6 have no effect and I have to reboot. I have installed 8.0 on a new Dell 2350 Dimension system with 1.7 Ghz Celeron processor. The system has an Intel integrated 3D AGP graphics card (uses an 845GL chipset) which is not supported by 8.0, so I disabled the on-board video card in my bios and installed an old S3 Trio 64V+ video card. In the video configuration I have specified the S3 Trio 64v+ card with 1 MG memory. I've changed my resolution down to 640X400 and changed colors to 15 bit. I've tried "setterm -blank 0". Further investigation determines that even without a terminal window running, gnome-system-monitor's memory consumption increases steadily. Even when I am not doing anything on the screen but watching the system monitor application (no mouse movement or keyboard activity). I changed to runlevel 3 in order to continue to work in my text-based terminal and everything I've been doing is working fine there. I am doing some pretty big compiles and they are running VERY quickly in the text-based terminal. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. reboot 2. watch system monitor application 3. reboot Actual Results: gnome terminal and or gnome-system-monitor consume huge amounts of memory until system becomes unresponsive Expected Results: much productive work Additional info:
The reason that I have submitted this is because redhat support asked me to. See the service request: Incident Number: 228269 Customer Name: ROBIN CLARK Customer Number: 455699 Date Opened: Feb 15, 2003 16:29 Date Changed: Feb 17, 2003 01:04 Red Hat Tech: Philip Our latest response: Re: gnome-terminal Dear Sir, I suggest posting a bug report to our bugtracking system in order for our developers to be informed about this behaviour of the gnome-terminal program: http://bugzilla.redhat.com We apologize for the inconvenience. Regards, Philip Morales I can't imagine that this is a bug. I think that it is a problem with my configuration. What can I do to obtain more diagnostic information so that I can fix this problem? Thank you.
Try Xft packages at ftp://people.redhat.com/hp/testing/ they should fix the issue. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 76219 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.