I just encountered the same issue in ubuntu 12.10. I had the terminal running for a week or so. Now it consumes 660 MB, tendency rising. Closing single tabs is futile, memory footprint still rises. Please reopen.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138607 Title: gnome-terminal memory leak Status in GNOME Control Center: New Status in GNOME Terminal: Fix Released Status in Gnopernicus - Gnome Assitive Technologies: New Status in “gnome-terminal” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-terminal When using gnome-terminal over a prolonged period of time (especially with eg. mplayer which outputs a status line via ncurses) the memory usage becomes enormous. hundreds of MB's. The process only releases the memory after the last terminal is closed. Somehow 'caching' the memory of earlier terminals (which in my humble opinion is a memory leak). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-control-center/+bug/138607/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
