Re: don't understand, memory leak or memory pools??

["David M. Cook" <dave davidcook org>]

On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 09:16:57AM +0100, Peter Finderup Lund wrote:

> On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Olivier wrote:
>
> > is there indeed some memory management in gtk that keeps memory around in
> > pools? Can I make gtk free some of that memory? keeping the memory for
> > 3000 TextView-widgets around is not very useful..
>
> It's standard Unix/Linux implementation practice for malloc you are
> complaining about.

This freaked me out, too, the first time I encountered it years ago.

Dave Cook