Nathaniel Daw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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.
Yes, there is a known memory leak that was fixed recently in the Xft
library. We'll (we==Red Hat) be doing a bug fix errata for this at
some point I believe.
(I'm not really sure how you managed to get a server without RENDER
on Red Hat 8 ... is this a non-XFree86 server?)
Regards,
Owen
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