Re: gnome-pager memory leaks?

[Ian Peters <ipeters acm org>]

On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 03:44:12PM +0100, David Sundqvist wrote:
> Since the latest relase of WindowMaker (0.50.2) I've been running the
> gnomepager_applet. Has anyone else noticed it seems to have a tendency to
> grow rather large? 30 MB memory of which 25 MB is resident seems a bit too
> much to be entirely reasonable (wow, currently its resident size is
> bigger than both X and netscape :). It also seems suffer from occasional
> bouts of excessive redraws, but that is a bit more understandable when
> there are many windows.

I'm running gnomepager_applet with WindowMaker 0.50.2, or at least I
would be, if it weren't for this behavior...

When I start it up, I have:

USER       PID %CPU %MEM  SIZE   RSS TTY STAT START   TIME COMMAND
itp       1184  2.2  2.3  5652  2968  ?  S    11:42   0:00 gnomepager_applet --activate-goad-server gnomepager_applet 

After I cycle through my desktops once, I have:

USER       PID %CPU %MEM  SIZE   RSS TTY STAT START   TIME COMMAND
itp       1184  0.6  2.3  5660  2984  ?  S    11:42   0:00 gnomepager_applet --activate-goad-server gnomepager_applet

Click on them in order again and I have:

USER       PID %CPU %MEM  SIZE   RSS TTY STAT START   TIME COMMAND
itp       1184  0.4  2.3  5664  2988  ?  S    11:42   0:00 gnomepager_applet --activate-goad-server gnomepager_applet

Slowly but surely, this applet is eating up memory.  If I cycle
through my desktops 20 times, I get:

USER       PID %CPU %MEM  SIZE   RSS TTY STAT START   TIME COMMAND
itp       1184  1.6  2.4  5804  3128  ?  S    11:42   0:01 gnomepager_applet --activate-goad-server gnomepager_applet

If I leave it running during normal use, it soon grows to an
unacceptably large size.

-- 
Ian Peters		``Never attribute to malice what can be explained
ipeters@acm.org			by stupidity'' -- Hanlon's Razor