Memory leak (maybe) ?

[Olivier Fourdan]

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Colin Leroy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I now have two computers running Xfce 4.4. One has gtk+-2.8 and
> glib-2.12 and has no problem; the other has gtk+-2.10 and glib-2.12,
> and on this one, the memory usage of xfdesktop and xfce4-menu-plugin
> grows quite steadily - 180M RES for xfdesktop yesterday evening after
> approx one week uptime; I restarted it and it went back to 3.9M RES, and
> this morning it's at 18M already.
> 
> So clearly, there's a memory leak somewhere. Could it be in Xfce
> itself, or is it rather this dear
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352889 (which plagues Claws
> Mail too) ?
> 
> (it only appears with gtk+-2.10)...

This is an old bug that we've been chasing for very long. I've seen it
from time to time. It's possibly related to the menu.xml being
constantly reloaded and the menu being rebuilt.

Try removing $HOME/.config/xfce4/desktop/menu.xml and see if that helps.
I'm not entorely sure the bug lies in xfdesktop, but rather in the menu
code, or eventually elsewhere maybe in gtk+ or gdk-pixbuf.

Cheers,
Olivier.
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