Re: Memory leaks

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico nuclecu unam mx>]

>  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.

To be able to fix this, we need:

	1. A particular example of an application whose memory usage
           grows.

	2. A description of how to make it eat memory, so that we can
           duplicate the bug.

  Federico