Comment 6 for bug 385067

Description of problem:
gnome-panel appears to have a memory leak that may consume up to 4GB of memory within 24 hours if the program is left running. By default, gnome-panel runs, and is necessary, on Fedora 10 installations.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
GNOME 2.24.3

How reproducible:
Here are my gnome-panel settings:
I have gnome-panel running on a dual-monitor setup, only on the main monitor. I'm using kmod-nvidia, and compiz. I have verified that the memory leak is indeed coming from gnome-panel using top. gnome-panel is using a transparency effect and runs the following widgets:
NetworkManager icon, sound icon, date and time, fast user switching, desktop icon, virtual desktop, and taskbar.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run gnome-terminal
2. Configure it as above

Actual results:
Everything runs perfectly but with a huge memory leak that leads eventually to Fedora being unable to fork new processes.

Expected results:
gnome-panel without any memory leaking.

Additional info:
N/A