Re: [Sheflug] Eating up RAM

[Nicola Richmond <n.j.richmond [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What I meant to say was that I have to keep killing my gnome-terminal so
that I don't have to turn off my machine (it gets to the stage where
everything is hanging).

I first noticed the machine clogging up when I was trying to recompile
the kernal. Eventually, the gnome terminal would die and
/var/log/messages would report "out of memory".

I am sure it is what's being run in the gnome terminal that is the issue
and not the terminal itself. But I am not doing anything different
computationally than I did on my PII 266 with Redhat 7.1

OK I have just opened a gnome terminal and left it for a while - no
memory increase. I have just done a top and now, the gnome-terminal mem
usage is creeping up but top mem usage remains constant.

It appears that whenever I run anything from the gnome terminal, it
starts to sap the memory.


On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 13:23, Jonathan Le Vallois wrote:
> 
> > On running top, it is gnome-terminal that is on the increase. Memory
> > usage for this process has gone from 7% to 17.7% in the time taken to
> > write this email. I have to keep killing my gnome-terminal so turning
> > off my poor machine.
> 
> That's odd. I don't use Gnome, but I thought gnome-terminal was just 
> shell terminal like xterm or kterm. As such it doesn't do anything on 
> its own and killing shouldn't turn off your machine. Are you sure it 
> isn't something running from the gnome-terminal that is using up all the 
> memory?
> 
> Jonathan
> 
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> Jonathan Le Vallois
> 
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