xfce4-menu-plugin memory footprint

[Alexander Toresson]

On 8/22/06, Jason D. Clinton <me at jasonclinton.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> First time posting. I am the gnome-games module maintainer and the
> project lead for Safedesk Terminal Server; this past weekend I stumbled
> in to XFCE 4.4 beta 2 and was immediately impressed. Congratulations on
> a job well done. I'm now running it on my desktop and laptop.
>
> I have one concern which has popped up: the memory consumption of the
> xfce4-menu-plugin seems very high. Here is a pmap [pid] | grep anon:
>
> 08051000  28468K rw---    [ anon ]
> a7384000      4K rw---    [ anon ]
> a73e7000      8K rw---    [ anon ]
> a74db000      8K rw---    [ anon ]
> a7691000      8K rw---    [ anon ]
> a76b8000      4K rw---    [ anon ]
> a77f3000     12K rw---    [ anon ]
> a787d000      4K rw---    [ anon ]
> a79d9000      8K rw---    [ anon ]
> a7a9d000      8K rw---    [ anon ]
> a7aa8000      4K rw---    [ anon ]
> a7b5e000      4K rw---    [ anon ]
> a7bcd000      4K rw---    [ anon ]
> a7c5c000      4K rw---    [ anon ]
> a7f43000     16K rw---    [ anon ]
> a7fb5000      8K rw---    [ anon ]
> ffffe000      4K -----    [ anon ]
>
> Over the coarse of time the memory at 0x08051000 seems to be growing at
> a rate of 200k per hour or so. Has this issue been reported? Any
> thoughts? Sorry if this has already been visited.
>

Yes, and afaik the devs haven't been able to resolve it as they
haven't been able to reproduce. I might be wrong though.

Regards, Alexander Toresson