Re: Memory leaks

[raster redhat com]

On 19 Mar, Adam Moyes scribbled:
->  Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
->  > 
->  > >  There seems to be an awful lot of memory leaks in the
->  > >  gnome/Enlightenment combination. I just thought that if there is
->  > >  a port of the code to an OS on which Purify or a similar memory
->  > >  tracker is available (and someone has access to a copy), it might
->  > >  be worth running it through and posting the results to the developers
->  > >  mail group.
->  > 
->  > Do you have any reports in particular?  We are very interested in
->  > solving all memory leak issues.
->  > 
->  > Unfortunately, only very few developers have access to Purify-like tools.
->  > 
->  Not so far, however, I do seem to be affected by the previously discussed
->  ``desktop switching'' leak. I am using E (0.15.3) and gnome-core-1.0.3, with
->  the marble-3d GTK theme. Previously I was using WindowMaker (with core-1.0.3)
->  and was getting the same behaviour.
->  
->  Mostly my applications are static - I run them up once and leave them running.
->  Netscape (4.51) seems to chomp a lot, but I get the impression if I switch
->  desktops (I have 6) a lot, the swap space used seems to climb. At one point
->  I looked at my memory usage through gtop, though, and found that my X server
->  had a wapping 30M. This is XFree86-3.3.3 with the Mach64 server compiled under
->  egcs-1.1.1 and glibc-2.1.

if you have a different backgroudn per desktop no wonder its eating up
mem as you switch (it realizes images and pixmaps as needed for
desktops) - try using he same image / pixamp etc. for all desktops. (E
will eventually throw out the backgorund images if you dont visit a
desktop for a while)

->  
->  I guess there are just too many unknowns during normal usage to say anything
->  definate, I'll see if I can dedicate some time to looking at the desktop
->  switching problem in the future.
->  
->  Madman.

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