Thank you for this information! Maybe it would be time for me to finally start using GNOME? Or does it have similar leaks?
----- Original Message ----
From: Mathias Brodala <info@noctus.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 7:45:01 AM
Subject: Re: Xfce eating memory?
Hi Land.
Land Haj, 28.04.2007 14:37:
> I'm using debian etch, and have noticed that the processes
> 
> 9376 landhaj  15   0  514m 498m 9.9m S    0 15.2  11:53.10 xfdesktop
> 9390 landhaj  15  
 0  499m 492m 6928 S    0 15.0  10:03.07 xfce4-menu-plug
> 
> seem to eat a lot of memory.
These are known memory leaks in xfdesktop[0] and xfce4-menu-plugin[1]. There is
not much you can do about it; I for myself periodically kill xfdesktop and
restart it to free some memory.
Regards, Mathias
[0] 
http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2427[1] 
http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1914-- 
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