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i am experiencing an issue where i am doing a large rsync (multiple gb of small files) on a remote machine and terminal begins to use very large amounts of memory. i'm not all that sure what causes this other than maybe the output to the buffer from the rsync.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ssh into a remote machine
2. perform an large rsync (rsync -av -e ssh) from one remote machine to another remote machine
3. let the rsync roll, after a while (40 minutes) terminal will begin to consume a large amount of memory

Actual Results:  
after 40 minutes or so:

[zeusfaber@der-dieb ~]$ ps aux | grep 6482
1000      6482  1.4 77.9 2276124 1592648 ?     Ss   08:37   2:31 xfce4-terminal --geometry=120x35


Expected Results:  
less memory usage