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




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