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Terminal consumes all available RAM over hours while idle
Status:
RESOLVED: FIXED
Priority:
Medium
Severity:
major
Product:
Xfce4-terminal
Component:
General

Comments

Description Jacobo de Vera 2011-08-05 20:22:20 CEST 
I am running Terminal 0.4.7 under Ubuntu 11.04, I'm using Gnome, not XFCE.

I have noticed that Terminal will eat up all available RAM in my system when I leave it open for a couple of hours, even when no command is executed in it (just the shell prompt).

I am forced to close all terminals every hour to prevent this.

Possibly useful info:

$ xfce4-terminal --version
xfce4-terminal 0.4.7 (Xfce 4.8.0)

$ uname -a
Linux nexonub 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:24 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Is there any other useful information that I can provide?
Comment 1 Jacobo de Vera 2011-08-05 20:25:14 CEST 
This is my terminalrc:

[Configuration]
MiscAlwaysShowTabs=FALSE
MiscBell=FALSE
MiscBordersDefault=FALSE
MiscCursorBlinks=FALSE
MiscCursorShape=TERMINAL_CURSOR_SHAPE_BLOCK
MiscDefaultGeometry=80x24
MiscInheritGeometry=FALSE
MiscMenubarDefault=TRUE
MiscMouseAutohide=FALSE
MiscToolbarsDefault=FALSE
MiscConfirmClose=TRUE
MiscCycleTabs=TRUE
MiscTabCloseButtons=TRUE
MiscTabCloseMiddleClick=TRUE
MiscTabPosition=GTK_POS_TOP
MiscHighlightUrls=TRUE
TitleMode=TERMINAL_TITLE_REPLACE
FontName=Terminus 12
FontAntiAlias=FALSE
BackgroundMode=TERMINAL_BACKGROUND_IMAGE
Comment 2 Nick Schermer editbugs 2011-09-30 11:55:00 CEST 
*** Bug 7978 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Nick Schermer editbugs 2011-09-30 11:56:35 CEST 
Does this also happen without background image?
Comment 4 Jacobo de Vera 2011-10-04 02:19:10 CEST 
In my settings the option background image was selected but then no image was selected. I changed it to no background (none) and waited for hours. I could not see any particular increase in memory consumption.

I hope that narrows down the problem a little bit more.
Comment 5 Tim Wescott 2015-06-23 18:28:56 CEST 
This is happening to me with 0.6.3.  I need to periodically close xfce and reopen (which is a pain).

Please advise if it is possible that some application that I've started from xfce may be causing this, and I'll test for it.

Xubuntu 14.04 64-bit, AMD A-10 processor

uname -a gives:
Linux systemname 3.16.0-41-generic #57~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 18 18:01:13 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Comment 6 Tim Wescott 2015-06-26 19:59:26 CEST 
Rather than tack comments on to this Very Old bug, I submitted a new bug: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12020
Comment 7 Igor editbugs 2016-08-04 11:27:59 CEST 
Fixed in git version.

Bug #7871

Reported by:
Jacobo de Vera
Reported on: 2011-08-05
Last modified on: 2016-08-04
Duplicates (1):

People

Assignee:
Igor
CC List:
5 users

Version

Version:
0.4.7
Target Milestone:
0.8

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