Re: Memory leaks in Pango ?

["Richard Warren" <rew primagraphics co uk>]

Olivier,

I guess that's not the problem then but it's always worth checking. (You're
actually further ahead than me since I'm still on V2.0.0).

Regards,
Richard.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Olivier Fourdan" <fourdan xfce org>
To: "Richard Warren" <rew primagraphics co uk>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: Memory leaks in Pango ?


> Hi Richard,
>
> I believe I'm up-to-date :
>
> gtk+-2.0.2
> glib-2.0.1
> atk-1.0.1
> pango-1.0.1
>
> Cheers,
> Olivier.
>
> On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 10:13, Richard Warren wrote:
> > Hi Olivier,
> >
> > What version of GTK are you using?  Are you up to date?
> >
> > I used to see memory problems when repeatedly changing the text in
labels
> > before the V2.0.0 release came out.  It certainly happened with V1.3.9
but
> > was fixed sometime before V1.3.14.  (It still happens on the Win32
version
> > though).
> >
> > Richard.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Olivier Fourdan" <fourdan xfce org>
> > To: <gtk-app-devel-list gnome org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 8:51 AM
> > Subject: Re: Memory leaks in Pango ?
> >
> >
> > > Hi Havoc,
> > >
> > > > > Am I missing something here ? I took a quick look at the function
in
> > > > > pango sources and did not notice anything wrong.
> > > >
> > > > Try "memprof" and see what's up.
> > >
> > > Well, actually, this is memprof that shows that the memory keeps
> > > growing. memprof doesn't report any leak there (but a few elsewhere),
> > > but still, the memory usage allocated by the process, according to
> > > memprof, grows from 1Mb up to 8Mb as much as the routine is called.
> > >
> > > It's worth noting that I did the same test with testgtk, and some
> > > widgets such as the "range control" shows exactly the same behaviour
> > > (which is not so surprising since the range control widget use exactly
> > > the same techniques as I do in my window manager).
> > >
> > > As you move the range controls in testgtk, you can watch the memory
> > > growing very fast.
> > >
> > > I'm pretty sure there is something wrong somewhere. I did the test on
> > > another system, just to make sure, and got the same result.
> > >
> > > The test is fairly simple to reproduce :
> > >
> > > memprof ./testgtk
> > >
> > > Select range widget
> > >
> > > Move the range buttons a few times and watch the total bytes alocated
in
> > > memprof.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > --
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