Here is a snippet of "ps aux" output for a freshly started Terminal 0.4.7 (Xfce 4.8.0) on Fedora 15 on x86_64: LOOK HERE vvvvvv Wed Jun 22 22:31:14 MDT 2011 272224 64388 ? Sl 21:52 1:29 Terminal Wed Jun 22 22:31:23 MDT 2011 272488 64388 ? Sl 21:52 1:29 Terminal Wed Jun 22 22:36:22 MDT 2011 278560 70568 ? Sl 21:52 1:43 Terminal Wed Jun 22 22:39:13 MDT 2011 281992 74264 ? Sl 21:52 1:50 Terminal Wed Jun 22 23:03:15 MDT 2011 311336 103400 ? Sl 21:52 2:47 Terminal The project description say "lightweight" terminal emulator. It is 7x the memory footprint of xterm, and 11x that of rxvt; it badly needs some memory trimming, or else its description needs to be changed to "bloated" terminal emulator.
Did you even take the time to understand what these values are all about? Also note that "lightweight" is not the same as "low memory requirements", otherwise we would have called it "low memory requirements terminal emulator".
Do you use an image background? There is a leak in vte regarding that but thye somewhat refuse to plug it.
> From ml: > The Terminal window in question has a medium-green solid background, > with white text. > Well in that case I agree with Benny you are not looking at the actual memory usage. Give valgrind logs to prove your point.