Package: gnome-terminal
Severity: normal
Version: 2.0.1
Synopsis: gnome-terminal started crasing yesterday--seems to have a memory leak
Bugzilla-Product: gnome-terminal
Bugzilla-Component: general
BugBuddy-GnomeVersion: 2.0 (2.0.3)

Description:
Description of Problem:
gnome-terminal started failing recently--in the past couple of days.  

What I saw at that time
gnome-terminal used more and more memory and crashed.  (I hope this
is not a red herring.)

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. I opened up a gnome-terminal right clicking on the background and
selecting
it from the menu.  (By the way, this was in a VNC window on a Win2k
machine)
2. I ran a few programs--"top was one", and perhaps a few others
3. 

Actual Results:


Expected Results:


How often does this happen?
Very often now, but it never used to happen.  This started one or two
days ago.

Additional Information:
When it started, I was doing some very heavy email related operations
using
evolution.  I had an imap server going temporarily because I wanted to
take all my email folders over from outlook express on my win2k
machine--
about 11,000 messages.  I would go to my outlook express window and
copy
one folder over to the Inbox folder, then I would go to the evolution
window and
do a Send/Receive and continued doing this until I had all my email on
the
Linux box.  Then I started building folders and filters in evolution to
manage
my email.  I set up spamassassin, noticed how high the load went and
how
slow things were, so I set up spamd and spamc and did a little
preprocessing.

Anyway enough about the email stuff....

For curiosity, I watched "top" in a gnome-terminal window to see how
much
CPU and memory was being used, and there I noticed gnome-terminal going
as high as 450meg or so.  It would start small--just a few meg then 
climb to
10, 15, 20, 50,...  It looks like a memory leak.

I thought it might be that there is so much "curses" activity in "top",
though it
was gnome-terminal and not "top" that was growing.  I just thought
perhaps
the amount of activity in place might be doing it, so I stopped running
top
for a bit, but I could not tell how much it was using.  I could run ps
or vmstat
to get a general picture of the whole system.  But, I really was focused
on my
email so I didn't pursue it further.

But gnome-terminal seemed to die even when i wasn't using top so much.

I could minimize the window and bring it back up and the memory was
still taken up...



Debugging Information:

Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/gnome-terminal'

(no debugging symbols found)...[New Thread 16384 (LWP 30238)]
0x408fa7f7 in waitpid ()
   from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0

+ Trace 36091

------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2003-04-20 12:08 -------

The original reporter (dandick10@attbi.com) of this bug does not have an account here.
Reassigning to the exporter, unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org.
Reassigning to the default owner of the component, hp@redhat.com.