Bug#167927: marked as done (gnome-terminal eats memory like it was its job)

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Subject: gnome-terminal eats memory like it was its job
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Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.1.0-2
Severity: important


Ever since upgrading to gnome-terminal 2.0, I've noticed gnome-terminal
keeps consuming more and more memory until it's eventually killed by the
kernel's OOM killer.

For example, my current gnome-terminal process looks like:

dilinger  4147 16.5 54.3 286908 281024 ?     R    13:16  17:47
/usr/bin/gnome-terminal

This has been running for about 2 hours, with 2 gnome terminal windows
open (4 tabs open in the first, 2 tabs open in the second).  After
closing a tab, memory usage is not reduced; it increases.  I suspect a
leak somewhere; when I have the time, I'll run gnome-terminal through
valgrind and see if I can figure out what's going on.  It may also be
related to the theme I'm using (gtk2-engines-thinice-2.0.1-1.1), although
other programs using gtk2 don't seem to have this problem
(galeon-snapshot, pan, and so on).


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux wax.voxel.net 2.4.19 #1 Sun Nov 3 02:55:12 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  bonobo-activation     1.0.3-2.2          Bonobo Activation Framework
ii  libart-2.0-2          2.3.10-3           The GNOME 2 canvas widget - runtim
ii  libatk1.0-0           1.0.3-2            The ATK accessibility library
ii  libaudiofile0         0.2.3-4            The Audiofile Library
ii  libbonobo-activation4 1.0.3-2.2          Bonobo Activation Framework -- run
ii  libbonobo2-0          2.0.0-1            Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0        2.0.3-1            The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                 2.3.1-3            GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libesd0               0.2.28-2           Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libgconf2-4           1.2.1-3            GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt1            1.1.10-2           LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0           2.0.1-2            Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0          2.0.6-1            The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0           2.0.5-2            The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0     2.0.4-2            A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0          2.0.5-5            The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0        2.0.4-3            The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls5            0.5.9-2            GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgtk2.0-0           2.0.6-4            The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liblinc1              0.7.0-1            library to simplify creating netwo
ii  liborbit2             2.5.0-1            Libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0         1.0.5-3            Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0              1.6.4-2            lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libtasn1-0            0.1.2-1            Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libxml2               2.4.24-1           GNOME XML library
ii  libzvt2.0-0           2.0.1cvs20021009-2 The GNOME 2 zvt (zterm) widget - r
ii  scrollkeeper          0.3.11-2           A free electronic cataloging syste
ii  xlibs                 4.2.1-3            X Window System client libraries
ii  yelp                  1.0.6-2            Help browser for GNOME 2
ii  zlib1g                1:1.1.4-6          compression library - runtime

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Looks like upstream has closed this bug, and I'm certainly not seeing
this behavior anymore from gnome-terminal (it might still not free
memory when a tab/terminal is closed, but i haven't noticed problems w/
it consuming all my memory)

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Andres Salomon <dilinger@voxel.net>

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