Bug#448807: gnome-terminal uses excessive memory -- leak suspected

[Loïc Minier]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007, ariana strangelove wrote:
> I've had gnome-terminal in use for a while with default settings
> (scrollback 500 lines or 318kb) and it's using a HUGE amount of memory.
> I'm seeint the same from both gnome-panel and galeon so i suspect it
> could well be an issue in a library used by all three.  I've looked at
> the list for gnome-panel, and this could be related to bug #445340.
> Here is it's line from top:
> 12381 ariana    19   4  458m 368m  13m R  1.0 24.3  12:09.19
> gnome-terminal

 Could you check with 2.18.2?  If it still leaks for you, please run
 gnome-terminal in valgrind and see whether you can identify the leak.

   Thanks,
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Loïc Minier