[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#651277: Bug#651277: xfce4-terminal: Memory leak

[Isaac Gelado]

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> wrote:
> On mer., 2011-12-07 at 22:25 +0100, Isaac Gelado wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> wrote:
>> > On mer., 2011-12-07 at 22:08 +0100, Isaac Gelado wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>  what traces do you need? How can I get them?
>> >>
>> > Well, first, how you determined it was using 4G memory. Then what
>> > exactly did you do at that time, what is your config, etc. Then use
>> > valgrind
>> > (http://wiki.xfce.org/howto/panel_plugin_debug#debug_with_valgrind_full_example might help)
>>
>> Hi,
>>  I determined that it was using ~4GB of memory using top; I have munin
>> running on my system, and the physical memory usage for applications
>> was constantly increasing. After killing xfce-terminal, the memory
>> usage dropped.
>>
>>  I was running xfce4-terminal on gnome-shell (3.0.2-8).
>
> Ok. Nothing else running? What drivers (graphics)?

Only the usual applets that come with gnome (network-manager, etc.).
My graphics driver is nvidia (from debian repositories) 290.10-1

>
>>  To get valid
>> valgrind traces, I have to install the debug version of
>> xfce4-terminal, don't I? Let me know if this is the case, so I can run
>> valgrind on the correct binary.
>
> I think it might help, yes.

Ok. I will run this and get back to you.

 Thanks!
  Isaac


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> Yves-Alexis



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