gnome-panel pixmap usage

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

I recently found out about "xresmap" (basically "top" for X server
resources), so I ran it to see why my memory is getting sucked up so
quickly these days.

To my surprise, the major offender was not firefox (the usual suspect
these days :-), but rather gnome-panel -- it seems to be using 85 MB of
pixmaps!

Here's the output:

res-base Wins  GCs Fnts Pxms Misc   Pxm mem  Other   Total   PID Identifier    
1000000   132   33    0 1425  105    85237K      6K  85244K  2876 gnome-panel
1800000   353   49    1  456  366    17700K     19K  17719K 10580 firefox
1600000    78   31    1  155   88     7810K      5K   7815K  8828 gqview
2000000   217   61    1   43   93     2399K      9K   2409K  7046 gtk-window-dec
2200000    19    1    1    7  851     1738K     21K   1759K   ?   compiz
0e00000     9   52    1   18   54     1099K      3K   1103K 10569 gnome-terminal
...

[I hand-edited the "Identifier" column, as the original had charset
issues; the names now are based on the PID and what ps says.]

So does anybody have a clue why gnome-panel would be using so much
pixmap memory?  Does it have known pixmap leaks?

I thought maybe it had something to do with my background wallpaper, so
I replaced it with a single-color background, and that didn't affect the
number by more than a few KB.

Oh, the gnome-panel version is 2.18.3-2.

Thanks,

-Miles
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