Bug#448807: gnome-terminal memory management

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mercredi 03 décembre 2008 à 13:02 +0000, Enrico Zini a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> I experience the same memory hogging with gnome-terminal.  In fact, in
> my system, long-running gnome-terminals are the applications that use up
> the highest amount of memory.
> 
> I did set scrollback to large values (50000 lines, 32421Kb), but the
> memory used hardly matches that.  The terminal I'm using, with 3 tabs
> open, has this memory footprint at the moment:
> 
>   VIRT  RES  SHR
>   666m  63m  11m

Could you please try again with gnome-terminal 2.24 which lies in
experimental? This is a full rewrite and it seems to use less memory
than that.

Thanks,
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