Hi,

I wonder if anyone knows of (seemingly massive) memory leaks in the Xft
code that does antialiasing when the RENDER extension is absent. I'm
using the Xft version (2.0) that ships with Redhat 8, and have noticed
that, on my laptop whose video chipset (S3 Aurora 64V+) is RENDER
unsupported, gnome-terminal's memory utilization grows quickly and without
bound as long as it is rendering text. e.g., "ls -alR /" will grow
its memory usage by around a megabyte per second. This does not happen
with antialiasing turned off, nor on another otherwise similarly
configured computer which has the RENDER extension enabled (and this is
not, needless to say, just a function of the scrollback buffer growing).

I haven't yet verified whether this is a gnome-terminal specific effect,
though I doubt it. I thought before I made any more effort to track this
down I'd check to see if it is a known problem.

Thanks much,

Nathaniel

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