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Terminal 0.4.7 leaks memory badly on Fedora 15 x86_64
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RESOLVED: INVALID
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Xfce4-terminal
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General

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Description Nelson H. F. Beebe 2011-06-23 20:47:59 CEST
 
Comment 1 Nelson H. F. Beebe 2011-06-23 20:52:44 CEST
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.
Comment 2 Benedikt Meurer editbugs 2011-06-23 21:31:35 CEST
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".
Comment 3 Nick Schermer editbugs 2011-06-23 22:34:52 CEST
Do you use an image background? There is a leak in vte regarding that but thye somewhat refuse to plug it.
Comment 4 Nick Schermer editbugs 2011-06-24 07:49:07 CEST
> 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.

Bug #7763

Reported by:
Nelson H. F. Beebe
Reported on: 2011-06-23
Last modified on: 2011-06-24

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