xconsole eats up RAM (a LOT)

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

  I am running unstable, kernel 2.2.17, I noticed that sometimexconsole
eats up about 50% of memory as reported by top. it usually happens
afterthere have been a LOT of messages, but messages stopped coming few
hours ago and the memory usage by xconsole did not go down.

  any ideas? is that a bug of xconsole?

  also notice that it used a lot of CPU cycles (not at the snapshot time
but overall, in TIME column)

  4:56pm  up 4 days, 14:40,  5 users,  load average: 0.45, 0.60, 0.39
72 processes: 70 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   9.7% user,   7.1% system,   0.0% nice,  83.2% idle
Mem:   79692K av,  77880K used,   1812K free,  51100K shrd,   1652K buff
Swap: 243104K av, 220584K used,  22520K free                 49976K
cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME
COMMAND
 4090 root       0   0 66780  32M 33572 S       0  0.0 42.2 160:40
xconsole
13785 erik      11   0 36784  12M  7484 S       0  4.0 16.1  24:22
communicator-sm
 4079 root      15   0  168M 9088  1972 R       0  4.0 11.4 139:56
XFree86

  TIA

	erik