Re: Gio & memory management

[Enrico Tröger <enrico troeger uvena de>]

On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:55:41 +0200, nico <nico yojik eu> wrote:

>Hi Enrico,
>
>Thank you for your answer...
>I'll try to read more about GError (in fact, i wrote first a program 
>with GLibmm, and then rewrote the program in GLib to test whether the 
>memory usage would be the same in pure C, but that's my first program 
>with GLib without the C++ binding).
>
>Unfortunately, I did not receive your patch... even in your second 
>message... I guess the mailing daemon blocked it.
>May be you could send it directly to my email address...

Oops, try this one:
http://www.uvena.de/tmp/gio.diff


>About the memory, usage It's not possible to explain by the fact that 
>the function is recursive... cause the memory usage only  grow up and 
>never  decrease (I need more that 500 MB to list /usr/ and the max
>depth is only 12... so at this moment I have 12 GFileEnumarator
>structures in memory... )

That's true.
But things should get better with the patch because your created
child_path was wrong, it missed a slash in some cases and this caused
errors and so the GError struct was set but never freed.


Regards,
Enrico

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