Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Title:
gnome-terminal memory leak causes slow performance
Status in “gnome-terminal” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
I believe this started with the upgrade to 12.10 or perhaps shortly
after. I'm used to firefox using astronomical amounts of memory over
time but that's not a big deal because i can just kill it and restart
it and my workflow is barely interrupted. Unfortunately, gnome-
terminal has no similar restore tabs capability.
As a developer, I typically keep gnome-terminal running for weeks at a
time, usually with at least 4-5 tabs and often more (as of the time of
this bug report I had 8 tabs open, 2 running ssh, 4 with leftover
buffers from previous ssh sessions and 2 only used locally). As of
this writing, I've only had this gnome-terminal window open for 4.5
days and its currently using 714 MB, second only to firefox (1GB and I
just restarted it 30 minutes ago, wtf)
I do not know if the leak is related to buffers or the actual programs
used. Generally speaking, I only use ssh and occasionally vi locally.
If I need to do anything else locally I will open a secondary gnome-
terminal window, do whatever (tail logs, restart network manager
applet, etc) and then close that window. But I keep my primary gnome-
terminal window which I use mostly for work open for long periods of
time. But now I'm forced to restart gnome periodically to release its
memory. It doesn't help that the latest versions of firefox and
chrome are also all competing for fastest leak rate, often bringing my
8GB 64-bit machine to a crawl until i start killing things.
As best I can tell, closing open tabs in gnome-terminal does not
reduce memory usage, only closing the window (aka terminating the
process) entirely does so.
Requested info (in case ubunut-bug missed something):
Description: Ubuntu 12.10
Release: 12.10
gnome-terminal:
Installed: 3.6.0-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 3.6.0-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 3.6.0-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages
500 http://ubuntu.osuosl.org/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: gnome-terminal 3.6.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Nov 15 10:17:55 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-06-18 (149 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64
(20120425)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-27 (19 days ago)
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