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

[ariana strangelove]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.18.1-1
Severity: important

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

I am going to also report against galeon and reference this and #445340,
feel free to consolidate if you this they are the same bug.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gnome-control-center        1:2.18.1-1   utilities to configure the
GNOME d
ii  gnome-terminal-data         2.18.1-1     Data files for the GNOME
terminal
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.20.0-1     The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0                2.20.0-1     Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                       2.6.1-1+b1   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.20.0-1     GNOME configuration database
syste
ii  libglade2-0                 1:2.6.2-1    library to load .glade files at
ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.14.1-5     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                 2.20.1.1-1   The GNOME 2 library - runtime
file
ii  libgnomeui-0                2.18.1-2     The GNOME 2 libraries (User
Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0              1:2.20.0-3   GNOME Virtual File System
(runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.10.13-1    The GTK+ graphical user
interface
ii  liborbit2                   1:2.14.7-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA
ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.18.2-1     Layout and rendering of
internatio
ii  libpopt0                    1.10-3       lib for parsing cmdline
parameters
ii  libstartup-notification0    0.9-1        library for program launch
feedbac
ii  libvte9                     1:0.16.9-1   Terminal emulator widget for
GTK+
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.0.3-7    X11 client-side library
ii  libxrender1                 1:0.9.4-1    X Rendering Extension client
libra
ii  scrollkeeper                0.3.14-13    A free electronic cataloging
syste

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  yelp                          2.14.3-2   Help browser for GNOME 2

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