On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 09:08, Nick Lindsell wrote: > At 14:28 28/11/2002 +0000, you wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >If I start up gnome-terminal in redhat 8.0 it gradually > >consumes all of my memory and swap space until my > >machine is unusable. I can watch it doing this using > >'top'. My current solution is to use xterm as my > >default terminal. > > > >Has anyone else come across this problem? > > Hmm - perhaps I have. My laptop with rh8 will start thrashing the > disk and become unresponsive until I poweroff. The last time it happened > I let it go until gnome-terminal died - then I could carry on working > with it. I've just fired up top in gnome-terminal and I can see the > memory usage of gnome-terminal slowly creeping up - it was 10% > when I started writing this and is now 23.7%. > > ttfn > nick >
Bugzilla bug number 76219 It is evidently a gtk issue. No fix yet. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list