Hi, FYI: Approximate memory usage (RSS) for me right after starting up the apps is:
gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal, mate-terminal: 35 MB terminator: 55 MB terminix: 60 MB I'm on Ubuntu Yakkety, some of these apps are from Zesty beta or manually compiled, all of them using Gtk+-3 and corresponding libvte-2.91. (In the original report, and probably in the followup comments too they were probably based on Gtk+-2 and libvte9.) I don't know where these large numbers come from, but I can easily imagine Gtk+ itself (with all the things it's doing under the hood, e.g. I guess it caches the font, etc.) bringing in perhaps a good 30 or so megs (hey, an empty gedit consumes 44 MB for me), and perpahs the Python overhead (including its automatic deferred GC) is yet another 20 M. Dunno. VTE is expected to consume somewhere around up to maybe 0.5 MB - 1 MB per widget once you actually start using it (that is, once you produce a nice amount of output, not just the initial shell prompt and a few lines). That is, it's negligible here. cheers, egmont
