Re: Memory leaks

["Jason" <i2ambler bellsouth net>]

30 megs X? hell.. mine eats 45-50 megs
-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Moyes <adam@macfar.demon.co.uk>
To: Federico Mena Quintero <federico@nuclecu.unam.mx>
Cc: gnome-list@gnome.org <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Date: Friday, March 19, 1999 4:27 AM
Subject: Re: Memory leaks


>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.
>
>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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