terminal terminates on large select all

[Jim Schmidt]

Description: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Release: 20.04

Repo:

1. Open a new terminal and turn on menu bar
2. Turn off scrollback limit in Preferences
3. Run a command that produces a lot of output. For example, enable 'locate' command, and use it to produce thousands of lines with something like 'locate a'
4. Go to Edit, Select All

Result: terminal process will end and terminal disappears; seems to crash on out of memory

Expected: Select All works, or, a popup with an error such as "Select All requires 19 GiB, but memory is insufficient."

Note: I have VMWare installed; not sure if VMWare clipboard crashes, or if it is the terminal.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: gnome-terminal 3.36.2-1ubuntu1~20.04
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-41.45~20.04.1-generic 5.11.22
Uname: Linux 5.11.0-41-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.21
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Dec 6 12:29:45 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-11-13 (387 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200731)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)