Re: Alias expansion patch

[Ian Campbell <ijc25 cam ac uk>]

Have a look at memprof it is very useful for finding this sort of thing.

http://people.redhat.com/otaylor/memprof/

On Sat, 22 Jul 2000 09:01:35 Berend De Schouwer wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 20:18:15 Peter Williams wrote:
> > Thanks for your patch! I'll look it over and try to commit it soon.
> > 
> > > Here is a much improved alias expansion patch, featuring:
> > > For developers:
> > > * Spent the last three days hunting a memory leak.  Turns out the leak
> > >   also exists in a clean balsa 0.9.0
> > 
> > Any information on said leak?
> 
> start balsa.  Look at the memory usage with ps.
> Start compose window, check memory usage: bigger (expected).
> close window (don't type anything),  and it doesn't free the RAM.
> 
> Every compose window seems to waste approx. 64K when the window is closed.
> 
> Per example: clean Balsa-0.9.0, ./configure --enable-all
> Start balsa; ps aux | grep balsa
> ziggy    20220  7.3  6.8  6912 4312 pts/1    S    09:56   0:00 ./balsa
> Start compose; ps aux | grep balsa
> ziggy    20220  3.5  7.3  7068 4600 pts/1    S    09:56   0:00 ./balsa
> kill compose; ps aux | grep balsa
> ziggy    20220  2.5  7.3  7068 4608 pts/1    S    09:56   0:00 ./balsa
> Start compose; ps aux | grep balsa
> ziggy    20220  2.5  7.4  7128 4664 pts/1    S    09:56   0:01 ./balsa
> Kill compose; ps aux | grep balsa
> ziggy    20220  2.5  7.4  7128 4664 pts/1    S    09:56   0:01 ./balsa
> 
> ... after 10 repeats ...
> ziggy    20220  2.4  8.1  7592 5128 pts/1    S    09:56   0:03 ./balsa
> 
> 
> > > * The code shows that C is not my native language.
> > > * Is there a g_strlen()?  I couldn't find one.  Everything else is
> > >   gchar, gcompletion, glist, g_strconcat, etc.
> > 
> > No, gchar is just a char, I never really got why they do it, but
> > all the g_ functions work that way. There are some functions eg
> > g_strdup that are for portability, but functions that everyone has
> > such as strlen aren't reproduced.
> 
> Okay.
> 
> > My apologies if this comes out as HTML mail...
> 
> It didn't.
> 
> > --
> > --
> > Peter Williams -- peterw@helixcode.com
> 
> -- 
> Kind regards,				  
> Berend                                  
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