Re: Widget memory allocation

[Bjorn Andersson <ban lifix fi>]

On Mon, Nov 22 1999, at 10:46:33 -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > Here's an example that leaks about 8KB of memory every time I open
> > and close the dialog. Should the dialog be freed? Is it me, gnome
> > or something else that is leaking. I am using:
> 
> Doesn't look like it should leak. If you're using glibc/Linux, 
> try memprof and see if it reports leaks. If memprof doesn't report a leak
> then probably you're just using the wrong method to detect leaks. If it
> does report a leak, then it will also report where the leak occurred.

I tried memprof 0.3. Should "# of Allocations" stay constant
between opening and closing the dialog? How about "Total Bytes"?
Here are the numbers for opening and closing the dialog six
times. The first value pair is before opening, the rest after
closing:
# of Allocs    Total Bytes
3962           164857
4462           191312
4507           199316
4552           207216
4597           215116
4642           223013
4688           231038

I do not yet have all the libraries compiled with debuging symbols,
but I will include the leakinfo file produced by memprof after the
last dialog close.

Regards,
Björn Andersson
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