On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 13:28:32 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > severity #376372 important > merge #376372 #376177 > thanks > > On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 11:36:45AM +0000, Florian Paul Schmidt wrote: > > i just had the unpleasant experience of the OOM killer kicking in > > and killing apps at random. A look at htop output provided me with > > the information that xfdesktop had three processes at more than > > 250megs resident each. > > Yes, xfdesktop leaking memory is a known problem, not really fixed. I > wonder why this bugs isn't yet merged with #376177 so I'm doing this > know.
Just for the records: I also tried to help upstream to solve this nasty bug[1]. Progress is somewhat slow, and the last conclusion that I'm aware of is that this bug is hidden in the menu code. This also explaines why I also had similar memory leak problems with the menu panel plugin. Regards, Tino [1] http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2427 _______________________________________________ Pkg-xfce-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-xfce-devel

