A patch is available in GNOME Bugzilla, but as you can see there, I'm still
waiting for the confirmation that it works like expected:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344766
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Zooming/Text functions cause 100% CPU Utilization possible memory leak?
https://launchpad.net/bugs/48887
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Public bug reported:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/dia/+bug/48887
This bug is caused by a major memory leak in libpango and makes dia unusable on
dapper and edgy. See GNOME bugzilla entries for details:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344766
Please update Ubuntu
I experience the same problem. I did some analysis with valgrind and
noticed that the problem isn't dia itself, but the text-layout library
'libpango'. On every redraw event some pieces of font information are
gathered by that library, but won't be cleaned up again so that dia (and
any other