Re: gnome-panel pixmap usage

[Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>]

David Weinehall <tao@debian.org> writes:
>> Ok -- I just did "killall gnome-panel" and the new gnome-panel seems to
>> be using much less pixmap memory: now it's using about 3 MB.  I'll watch
>> it for a while, but it's certainly smelling like a leak to me at the
>> moment....
>
> 3MB still sounds a lot; according to xrestop, my gnome-panel(s) (one on
> top, one at the bottom) uses a bit more than 500k, and that's with
> screensaver applet, fast user switch, gnome menu, 5 launchers, system
> monitor, desktop switcher, volume applet, weather applet, zeroconf
> discovery, clock/date, notification area, window selector, and show
> desktop button.
>
> Do you have evolution installed?  It might be the evolution<->date/time
> coupling that causes the leak (guessing wildly here).

No...

I don't even have a desktop or anything, just basic usage.

Are gtk themes powerful enough to leak pixmaps?  Maybe it's my theme?

Thanks,

-Miles

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