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

[Neil Woods]

Package: xfce4-terminal
Version: 0.4.8-1+b1
Followup-For: Bug #651277

Dear Maintainer,

I'd been using xfce4-terminal just recently again and noticed a very
high memory usage.  At first it's reasonably OK, using around 15% of
memory on this 2Gb Asus eeePC 1000H netbook.  After several hours it
increases to over 1Gb memory usage.  Incidentally, the process CPU
usage is also very high, around 70%.

I decided to follow the advice given earlier and to use valgrind with
your suggested parameters. Following a reboot I used:

$  G_SLICE=always-malloc G_DEBUG=gc-friendly valgrind --tool=memcheck \
--leak-check=full --show-reachable=yes -v --log-file=valgrind.log xfce4-terminal 

and let it run for just over 8 hours. I've attached the log file.

I have essentially the same OS and version on my desktop machine,
a 64bit system.  The problem does not occur on that machine.

Cheers,

Neil.




-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (995, 'stable'), (90, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.10-0.bpo.2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xfce4-terminal depends on:
ii  exo-utils           0.6.2-5
ii  libatk1.0-0         2.4.0-2
ii  libc6               2.13-38
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.6.8-1+deb7u1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2    0.100.2-1
ii  libexo-1-0          0.6.2-5
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.24.10-2
ii  libpango1.0-0       1.30.0-1
ii  libvte9             1:0.28.2-5
ii  libx11-6            2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1
ii  libxfce4util4       4.8.2-1

Versions of packages xfce4-terminal recommends:
ii  dbus-x11  1.6.8-1+deb7u1

xfce4-terminal suggests no packages.

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