Although I resolved this problem prior to hitting the send button, I thought I would send this e-mail anyway for future searches on this list. Steve Cowles ------------------ I use Xwin32 (on a W2K box) as my X server to manage a couple of RH8 systems. Both RH8 systems are configured to answer XDMCP requests/broadcasts. The problem I'm seeing is when I select GNOME (vs. KDE) at the graphical login screen, applications like gnome-terminal start chewing up memory resources at an astounding rate. Example: [scowles@voyager news]$ ps aux | grep gnome-terminal scowles 25516 3.4 7.4 21180 14196 pts/3 R 05:32 0:03 gnome-terminal [scowles@voyager news]$ ps aux | grep gnome-terminal scowles 25516 3.5 8.4 23088 16104 pts/3 R 05:32 0:03 gnome-terminal [scowles@voyager news]$ ps aux | grep gnome-terminal scowles 25516 3.7 9.5 25180 18196 pts/3 R 05:32 0:04 gnome-terminal Note: Each ps was done in 1 second intervals. Within 3 seconds, the %MEM field went from 7.4 to 9.5. In fact, if I leave gnome-terminal running long enough, the %MEM will hit 60%+ along with my swap partition showing full utilization (256MB). On the other side of the coin, if I select KDE at the login prompt and use "konsole" as my terminal, I do not see this type of memory leak. I can stay logged in for days. Now for the really strange part -- If I boot my desktop PC into RH8 (instead of W2K/Xwin32), I do not see this massive memory leak when I select GNOME. Not even if I use gdmchooser (which is running on display :1/ctl-alt F8) and display a remote gnome session back to my RH8 box. So it looks like this memory leak is associated with the Xserver being displayed to. ------------------- Long pause... ------------------- Well after finding the proper search string (memory leak), I see this problem has been logged into bugzilla (at least a dozen times!). The solution to resolving the memory leak problem is outlined in the following bugzilla report. Specifically, additional comment #16. http://www.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=76219 At least this works for me. Although after installing Xft, scrolling within a gnome-terminal is still very very slooow (like using VNC over a 56K dialup line slow). But at least the bleeding has stopped. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
