Ubuntu
xfce4-terminal package

xfce4-terminal memory leak

Bug #1562614 reported by Dmitry Moroz
10
This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
xfce4-terminal (Ubuntu)
Expired
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

when i start xfce4-terminal i can see in gnome-system-monitor that xfce4-terminal memory usage increase.

Revision history for this message
Dmitry Moroz (zzz-13-zzz) wrote :

How to reproduce: Terminal Preferences -> Appearance -> Background set to "Background Image" File: "None". Restart xfce4-terminal and see in task manager how it's memory usage increase.

Revision history for this message
louis (louis-a-scott) wrote :

I had this behaviour with
BackgroundMode=TERMINAL_BACKGROUND_IMAGE

 w
 12:15:26 up 3 days, 14:14, 2 users, load average: 1.21, 0.67, 0.46
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
louis tty8 :0 Tue22 3days 18:40m 0.26s init --user
louis pts/0 :0.0 11:55 1.00s 0.07s 0.00s w

Used all available memory 14G in this time!

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in xfce4-terminal (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Igor Zakharov (f2404) wrote :

This should be fixed in 0.8.x versions, please try the latest one.

Revision history for this message
Theo Linkspfeifer (lastonestanding) wrote :

Can you confirm that this bug is fixed in Ubuntu 18.04?

Changed in xfce4-terminal (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for xfce4-terminal (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in xfce4-terminal (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
To post a comment you must log in.
This report contains Public information  
Everyone can see this information.
Subscribing...

Other bug subscribers

Remote bug watches

Bug watches keep track of this bug in other bug trackers.