Re: Memory leaks with gnome-terminal?

[Gustavo Giráldez <gustavo giraldez gmx net>]

Hi,

On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 08:06, Ross Burton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am running the GNOME2 snapshots from Ximian.  When I start X the X
> server takes up a reasonable amount of memory, but over time it
> increases so much that I have to restart GNOME.
> 
> i.e. in a few days (this is a work machine so I logout once a week) the
> X server will grow to ~400M, which fills my 512M swap and 256M RAM.
> 
> Recently I observed this behaviour:
> 1) in one terminal, check the current size of X with ps.  I got 293532
>    and 56808.
> 2) start a gnome-terminal and check the sizes. I now get 298656 and
>    61932.
> 3) close the new gnome-terminal and check memory sizes. Mine stayed at
>    298656 and 61932, which looks like a memory leak to me.
> 
> Note that I use gnome-terminals with shaded transparent backgrounds.

This is the problem.  See bug #79930.  The patch I attached there makes
things much better, but using shaded transparent background there are
still leaks (I couldn't find out why).  But if you use non-shaded
transparent bg works ok (with the patch).  Maybe you could test the
patch and provide some more info if you find something?

HTH,
Gustavo