man, 14,.03.2005 kl. 11.16 -1000, skrev Warren Togami: > Warren Togami wrote: > > Per Bjornsson wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 10:20 -1000, Warren Togami wrote: > >> > >>> I just pushed this package to FC4. Not sure if it will make > >>> FC4test1, but we'll see. I didn't get a chance to try your 0.11.13 > >>> yet. Maybe we can consider it for rawhide sometime after test1. > >> > >> > >> > >> Any chance to get an FC3 update as well? Not only is the vte in FC3 > >> slow, it also has really annoying rendering bugs (easily seen e.g. in > >> nano, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=127972 ). > >> > >> Until today I was using a rawhide version I rebuilt some time ago (per > >> comment in that bug report); I've given your new version (0.11.12-0.FC3) > >> a spin and I haven't hit any problems yet. In fact, I think it fixes a > >> couple of residual problems that I had (but I can't tell for sure yet > >> since I couldn't figure out exactly how to reproduce them, it was mainly > >> occasional screen corruption when scrolling a lot). It would be > >> wonderful if you could shove this version into FC3 updates-testing ASAP > >> and see if others have the same experience. > >> > > > > It seems that this 0.11.12 based package is much better than FC3, but I > > am more concerned about long-term runtime problems. Keep testing it, > > and stress it hard, try to make it break. If nobody complains for a > > while then we'll push this to FC3 updates. > > > > Just as I had feared, long runtime with heavy activity shows signs of a > memory leak. I don't have time to debug this anytime soon. > Could you describe the activity pattern to make it easier to reproduce? I've run gnome-terminal under valgrind with no signs of leaks, but not for a long time. > So it would be appropriate to push this to FC3 updates only if the > current FC3 vte also has memory leaks. It probably does. Can somebody > confirm? > Also, I reverted the questionable fedora patch in CVS and added the latest patch for the memory consumption problems. It now shares the matching stuff and struct _vte_termcap between terminals and should use a lot less memory with multiple tabs. I think one of the previous versions of this patch had leaks that were fixed later, so that might be worth checking out. Cheers Kjartan
