Bug#623062: terminator: High memory usage

[Egmont Koblinger]

Hi,

FYI: Approximate memory usage (RSS) for me right after starting up the apps
is:

gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal, mate-terminal: 35 MB
terminator: 55 MB
terminix: 60 MB

I'm on Ubuntu Yakkety, some of these apps are from Zesty beta or manually
compiled, all of them using Gtk+-3 and corresponding libvte-2.91. (In the
original report, and probably in the followup comments too they were
probably based on Gtk+-2 and libvte9.)

I don't know where these large numbers come from, but I can easily imagine
Gtk+ itself (with all the things it's doing under the hood, e.g. I guess it
caches the font, etc.) bringing in perhaps a good 30 or so megs (hey, an
empty gedit consumes 44 MB for me), and perpahs the Python overhead
(including its automatic deferred GC) is yet another 20 M. Dunno.

VTE is expected to consume somewhere around up to maybe 0.5 MB - 1 MB per
widget once you actually start using it (that is, once you produce a nice
amount of output, not just the initial shell prompt and a few lines). That
is, it's negligible here.

cheers,
egmont

Bug#623062: terminator: High memory usage

[Chris]

Hi Julián,

unfortunately i havn't used terminator since ages and i don't have the
setup from 2011 anymore so i can't reproduce this.

>From my PoV this could be closed as long as no one else has this problem.

Gruß
Chris

> Hello Chris,
> 
> do you have this problem with 0.97-4 version?
> 
> Kind regards,

Bug#623062: terminator: High memory usage

[Julián Moreno Patiño]

Hello Chris,

do you have this problem with 0.97-4 version?

Kind regards,

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Bug#623062: terminator: High memory usage

[Chris]

Package: terminator
Version: 0.95-1
Severity: normal

Hi!

On my debian testing installation, the terminator process started with 1
tab and without fullscreene uses about 130MB of my memory. A friend of
mine uses arch linux, at this system terminator uses about 20MB of the
memory. I don't know how to debug or start to search for this problem.
Is this a debian or a terminator specific problem?

Thanks in advance for a reply.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (2, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL 
set to de_DE.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages terminator depends on:
ii  gconf22.28.1-6   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgtk2.0-bin 2.24.3-1~sid1  The programs for the GTK+ graphica
ii  python2.6.6-12   interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python-gobject2.21.4+is.2.21.3-1 Python bindings for the GObject li
ii  python-gtk2   2.17.0-4+b1Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  python-support1.0.11 automated rebuilding support for P
ii  python-vte1:0.24.3-2 Python bindings for the VTE widget

Versions of packages terminator recommends:
ii  python-gnome22.28.1-1Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii  python-keybinder 0.2.2-2 registers global key bindings for 
ii  xdg-utils1.1.0~rc1-2 desktop integration utilities from

terminator suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information



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