Re: Gnome Slows to a Crawl

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

At 08:30 AM 2/15/00 , Philip D. Jenkins wrote:
> since Redhat's 6.1 rpms.  It seems to get worse the more I use the Gnome
> Terminal, I tend to have about 12 gnome terminals open at all the time
> for several days until it gets to slow, the a simple restart of X fixes
> the problem.  I have always suspected that is was a memory problem in
> gnome.  Correct me if I am wrong.

The kids at the local LUG mentioned that they noticed that X leaks 
memory... something to do with the way it stores bitmaps.   So over time, 
one or more of the X processes grows quite large.  They said they reported 
it and the distro, Red Hat I believe, told them that it was a design flaw 
in X that couldn't be fixed.  Maybe you can find the ticket in bugzilla. 
This matches my experiences.

The other problem I have is a process which runs wild, usually after 
Netscape blows up.  I usually have to kill it by hand AFTER exiting 
gnome.  ld.linux.so, I think.

Obviously gnome is still a work in progress but no less stable than, say, 
Windows 98.  I don't leave either up any longer than need be...  At least 
when gnome wigs out I can quickly bring it under control...

-Alan
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