Major application resource leaks in Etch

[Marty]

While copying 30MB of text from a backuppc (web-based) log on a remote server, I 
ran into several problems:

1) Selecting the text using the Iceape edit->select-all menu option pegs the 
2.8GB CPU at 100% for tens of seconds, although it is much faster in subsequent 
attempts.

2) Each repetition causes two 60MB clipboard cache files to appear in /tmp. 
They persist after logging out of Gnome.

2) Pasting the text into kedit, or cutting it, pegs the CPU from 10s of seconds 
to a few minutes, and virtual memory usage approaches 2GB, increasing each time 
I repeat the operation.  (I stop before 2G only to avoid swapping.  I have no 
evidence that the leak is bounded.)

Since I am aware of the clipboard files I probably could probably safely delete 
them, but most users would be forced to reboot when their system mysteriously 
becomes unresponsive.

It doesn't appear to be Etch-specific.  I duplicated the problem in Sarge using 
Firefox, but the symptoms differed: the CPU usage delays were greater, but only 
one clipboard file was produced after each text selection, and this was 
reflected in 50% less virtual memory leakage.


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