Re: SHM leaks in gnome...

[raster redhat com]

On 14 Mar, Larry 'Daffy' Daffner shouted:
->  
->  I've been seeing shared memory leaks in GNOME applications.. I just
->  started noticing it the last couple of days. If you want to see them
->  yourself, just rin "ipcs" to check the shared memory segments in use
->  on an otherwise quiet system, start up a GNOME app, exit it, and look
->  at all the new shared memory segments with 0 refcounts. electriceyes
->  is a big offender, especially when viewing a large directory of
->  images, but I've also seen the problem with freecell. Anyone else
->  noticed this yet?

let me guess.. you turned shared pixmaps on for imlib?

it'll be imlib - there are only 2 things that can cause this.
1. programs segfault or exit abnormally DURING a rendering of a pixmap
or... you turn shared pixmaps on in imlib. X has some fundamental
design flaws in X right now that make this feature pretty much useless
- I haven't maintained it at all. Dont; turn them on.. the option may
be there but it's not really useful yet.

->  (I'm fairly certain it's not GTK, since I don't see this problem with
->  either gimp, or my own little app I'm using on, which makes use of
->  shared emmory pixmaps.)
->  
->  -Larry

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