Re: [gthumb-list] memory leak?

[Paolo Bacchilega <paolo bacchilega libero it>]

Il 02/04/2017 20:04, Paolo Benvenuto ha scritto:
> Hi!
>
> I'm using gthumb, and I find it the best among the image viewers. Thanks
> Paolo and other developers for all your work
>
> However, I'm seeing that, the more I use it - the more images I view -
> the more memory it uses:
>
> memory usage (RES in htop) is about 140MB when I launch gthumb
> - after viewing 58 images it grows to 451MB
> - changing to a folder with 288 images makes it grow to 517MB
> - viewing all those images make it grow to 779MB
> - changing to another folder with 21 images makes it grow to 802MB
> - viewing all those images make it grow to 876
> - etc. etc.
>
> My images average size is 3/4MB
>
> memory usage never goes down, only when gthumb is closed all the memory
> it eats is released
>
> I thing it's a serious memory leak...

The current git version should fix some of the leaks.

- Paolo