gnome-panel eats a lot of memory

[Erwin Rol]

I noticed that the gnome-panel seems to have a memory leak. Every time
new a window is opened and closed again the memory usage grows.


  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND

13643 erwin     16   0  611m 461m  12m S  0.0 24.5   2:02.01 gnome-panel

Open a new window

13643 erwin     17   0  621m 471m  12m S 42.3 25.0   2:04.89 gnome-panel

Close it

13643 erwin     15   0  621m 471m  12m S  0.0 25.0   2:04.89 gnome-panel

Open a new window

13643 erwin     17   0  629m 479m  12m R 74.2 25.5   2:07.30 gnome-panel

Close it

13643 erwin     15   0  631m 481m  12m S  0.0 25.6   2:07.77 gnome-panel

etc.


When i continue to open/close windows it eats up my 2G RAM and 4G Swap
and other application start to complain they can't get memory anymore.

This is with Rawhide on x86_64. 

- Erwin


On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 22:56 +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> I noticed that gnome-panel eats 25% (=256mb) of my memory which is quite a 
> lot for a simple panel. Does anybody else see this too? I installed 
> FC4Test2 and then upgraded to Rawhide.
> 
> Regards,
>    Dennis
>