Re: gnome-terminal, X memory

Well, after four days, my virtual memory is nearly exhausted. For some
reason, X is now consuming 200MB, and gnome-terminal, 136MB. Woof. up,
up, up. I'll have to crtl-alt-backspace before I run out of swap.

  8:08pm  up 4 days, 23:40,  3 users,  load average: 0.08, 0.22, 0.23
118 processes: 113 sleeping, 4 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  9.0% user,  4.8% system,  0.0% nice, 86.1% idle
Mem:   255392K av,  251932K used,    3460K free,       0K shrd,    4616K
buff
Swap:  522104K av,  423224K used,   98880K free                   82892K
cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
10788 rothwell  15   0 40052  38M 16400 S     5.2 15.2   7:26
mozilla-bin
 2645 root       0 -19  200M  27M  9980 S <   2.5 10.8  55:44 X
 2809 rothwell  15   0 31000  19M  8172 S     0.1  7.8   3:19
evolution-mail
 2896 rothwell  15   0  136M  10M  4964 R     0.7  4.0  10:17
gnome-terminal
 2745 rothwell  15   0 11440 9700  6380 S     0.5  3.7  50:35
gnome-panel
 2748 rothwell  15   0 12524 8440  6292 S     0.0  3.3   1:21 nautilus
11836 rothwell  15   0 50516 8076  5588 S     0.0  3.1   0:17 psi
 2771 rothwell  15   0  7596 6824  4392 S     0.0  2.6   4:48 evolution
 2791 rothwell  15   0  6924 6216  5324 S     0.0  2.4   0:03
evolution-addre
  862 xfs       16   0 15732 6020  1596 S     0.0  2.3   1:00 xfs
 2767 rothwell  15   0  6672 5452  4748 S     0.0  2.1   0:06
mini_commander_
 2803 rothwell  15   0  7168 5336  4372 S     0.0  2.0   0:52
evolution-execu
 2732 rothwell  15   0  5932 5248  4380 S     0.0  2.0   2:46 metacity
 2769 rothwell  15   0  6360 5228  4656 S     0.0  2.0   0:06
mixer_applet2
 2757 rothwell  15   0  5488 4748  4280 S     0.5  1.8  26:36
multiload-apple
 2655 rothwell  15   0  6408 4464  4284 S     0.0  1.7   0:06
gnome-session


On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 06:30, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> I think I've found a bug in "gnome-terminal" or "vte", that causes memory 
> leaks over time. Sometime ago, I was able to reproduce the problem by simply 
> running "gnome-terminal", and from within, run "top", press M (caps M, to 
> sort by memory), and then S1 (refresh every second). With this command, 
> "gnome-terminal" started to consume more and more memory.
> 
> Nowadays, I have been able only to reproduce this if I run a GNOME session 
> through the XVnc server and attach to it from my laptop (running a local 
> GNOME session doesn't seem to cause "gnome-terminal" to leak memory).
> 
> >From: Michael Rothwell <[email protected]>
> >Reply-To: [email protected]
> >To: [email protected]
> >Subject: gnome-terminal, X memory
> >Date: 12 Sep 2002 22:11:31 -0400
> >
> >Why would gnome-terminal be consuming 78MB?
> >
> >78220  10M  5712 S     6.8  4.3   5:59 gnome-terminal
> >
> >And X 168MB?
> >
> >168M  26M  9112 S <  21.9 10.7  37:26 X
> >
> >screen #0:
> >   dimensions:    1280x1024 pixels (401x302 millimeters)
> >   depth of root window:    16 planes
> >
> >--
> >Michael Rothwell
> 
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