memory leak with term running top

[Stefan Kamphausen <skamphausen@spammenot.bn-software.de>]

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In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2003-02-20 on porky.devel.redhat.com
configured using `configure  --host=i386-redhat-linux --build=i386-redhat-linux --target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-gcc --with-pop --with-sound'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.iso88591
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Dear Emacs Developers,

I am using one instance of Emacs as my desktop background, running it
in a transparent rxvt.  One of the features I use there is a terminal
running the top-programm.  Over the time this uses more and more
memory. 

To reproduce:
shell> emacs -q
# in emacs:
M-x term 
/bin/bash RET
# at shell prompt in emacs:
top RET
# in top programm (just to make it faster)
s 1 RET

I think that term.el is version 4.0 (from the line 
;;; V4.0 January 1997
in the Changes section)


Hope this helps.
Kind Regards
Stefan Kamphausen





Recent input:
M-x s u b <tab> m <tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> b u g <tab> <tab> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <report-emacs-b
ug>

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