[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#651277: Bug#651277: xfce4-terminal: Memory leak

[Isaac Gelado]

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Isaac Gelado <igelado at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Isaac Gelado <igelado at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> wrote:
>>> On mer., 2011-12-07 at 22:25 +0100, Isaac Gelado wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> wrote:
>>>> > On mer., 2011-12-07 at 22:08 +0100, Isaac Gelado wrote:
>>>> >> Hi,
>>>> >>  what traces do you need? How can I get them?
>>>> >>
>>>> > Well, first, how you determined it was using 4G memory. Then what
>>>> > exactly did you do at that time, what is your config, etc. Then use
>>>> > valgrind
>>>> > (http://wiki.xfce.org/howto/panel_plugin_debug#debug_with_valgrind_full_example might help)
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>  I determined that it was using ~4GB of memory using top; I have munin
>>>> running on my system, and the physical memory usage for applications
>>>> was constantly increasing. After killing xfce-terminal, the memory
>>>> usage dropped.
>>>>
>>>>  I was running xfce4-terminal on gnome-shell (3.0.2-8).
>>>
>>> Ok. Nothing else running? What drivers (graphics)?
>>
>> Only the usual applets that come with gnome (network-manager, etc.).
>> My graphics driver is nvidia (from debian repositories) 290.10-1
>>
>>>
>>>>  To get valid
>>>> valgrind traces, I have to install the debug version of
>>>> xfce4-terminal, don't I? Let me know if this is the case, so I can run
>>>> valgrind on the correct binary.
>>>
>>> I think it might help, yes.
>>
>> Ok. I will run this and get back to you.
>
> Attached two log files:
>
>  xfce4-terminal : valgrind xfce4-terminal
>  xfce4-terminal-leak : valgrind --leak-check=full xfce4-terminal

Uooops! I forgot to attach the files. Sorry.

>
>  Hope this helps.
>  Isaac
>
>>
>>  Thanks!
>>  Isaac
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Yves-Alexis
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Isaac Gelado
>>
>>  'As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich
>>     so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise'
>
>
>
> --
> Isaac Gelado
>
>  'As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich
>     so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise'



-- 
Isaac Gelado

 'As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich
    so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise'
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