vte for FC3/FC4 testing
Kjartan Maraas
kmaraas at broadpark.no
Tue Mar 15 17:09:30 UTC 2005
man, 14,.03.2005 kl. 11.16 -1000, skrev Warren Togami:
> Warren Togami wrote:
> > Per Bjornsson wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 10:20 -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> >>
> >>> I just pushed this package to FC4. Not sure if it will make
> >>> FC4test1, but we'll see. I didn't get a chance to try your 0.11.13
> >>> yet. Maybe we can consider it for rawhide sometime after test1.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Any chance to get an FC3 update as well? Not only is the vte in FC3
> >> slow, it also has really annoying rendering bugs (easily seen e.g. in
> >> nano, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=127972 ).
> >>
> >> Until today I was using a rawhide version I rebuilt some time ago (per
> >> comment in that bug report); I've given your new version (0.11.12-0.FC3)
> >> a spin and I haven't hit any problems yet. In fact, I think it fixes a
> >> couple of residual problems that I had (but I can't tell for sure yet
> >> since I couldn't figure out exactly how to reproduce them, it was mainly
> >> occasional screen corruption when scrolling a lot). It would be
> >> wonderful if you could shove this version into FC3 updates-testing ASAP
> >> and see if others have the same experience.
> >>
> >
> > It seems that this 0.11.12 based package is much better than FC3, but I
> > am more concerned about long-term runtime problems. Keep testing it,
> > and stress it hard, try to make it break. If nobody complains for a
> > while then we'll push this to FC3 updates.
> >
>
> Just as I had feared, long runtime with heavy activity shows signs of a
> memory leak. I don't have time to debug this anytime soon.
>
Could you describe the activity pattern to make it easier to reproduce?
I've run gnome-terminal under valgrind with no signs of leaks, but not
for a long time.
> So it would be appropriate to push this to FC3 updates only if the
> current FC3 vte also has memory leaks. It probably does. Can somebody
> confirm?
>
Also, I reverted the questionable fedora patch in CVS and added the
latest patch for the memory consumption problems. It now shares the
matching stuff and struct _vte_termcap between terminals and should use
a lot less memory with multiple tabs. I think one of the previous
versions of this patch had leaks that were fixed later, so that might be
worth checking out.
Cheers
Kjartan
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