Re: Mem leaks in gnome-terminal 1.9.6

[Gustavo Giráldez <gustavo giraldez gmx net>]

How much RAM do you have on each machine?  And how much of it is free
when you start the terminals?  In my 256 Mb, where normally I get leaks,
I got no leaks once when I had like four or five heavy applications
running (and so free memory was reduced).

Very odd :-)

Gustavo

On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 19:07, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 05:09, Gustavo Giráldez wrote:
> > I checked and I still have those leaks in this machine... but not in
> > another one.  I'm puzzled.  I did some tests and everything indicates
> > it's an xserver problem.  Here are some results (the problem is with
> > shaded transparent background, non-shaded works fine):
> [snip]
> > So, from this behavior I thought it could be an X problem, related to
> > some caching or optimization.  I have RH 7.2 with latest (4.1.0-15)
> > XFree86.  Could it be that the X server looses track of the pixmap data
> > when it copies it for its use in the background gc?
> 
> Okay, I've updated my machine at home to the latest releases of
> libzvt/gnome-terminal (1.115.2-1 and 1.9.6-2) and I don't get the
> leaks.  Starting 30 gnome-terminals results in a lot of memory use but
> not extravagant amounts, and closing them all with a 'killall
> gnome-terminal' results in the memory being freed.  The same experiment
> at work resulted in a massively bloated X server.
> 
> The difference between the machines?  Home (no leaks) is Debian Sid,
> work (leaks) is RedHat 7.2.  Both are up to date package wise.
> 
> Odd.
> 
> Ross
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