Re: Application memory grows uncontrollably and crashes

[ZHOU DX <zhou_dx yahoo com>]

--- Ali Akcaagac <aliakc web de> wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 17:01, Dr. Adrian Wrigley
> wrote:
> > Unfortunately, the memory consumption rises
> relentlessly
> > until the machine "crashes" :(

I have a similar situation like this.  My gtkmm
program can only run at most two days before it slows
down the whole system significantly.

> There are so many factors that could cause this.
> Third party libraries
> that GTK+/Glib depend on could leak memory, other
> Widgets that are not
> part of GTK+/Glib could leak memory, your own app
> could leak memory in
> case it's not given back to the system and and and.
> I think that
> GTK+/Glib are quite save in leaking memory. This is
> no guarantee that
> this is not happening but that is 'business' (whay
> of life).
>
> I recommend you use valgrind or memprof to check up
> what is really
> leaking here.
>
> http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/
I post the result of valgrind memcheck on my program
recently. But I am not sure how the report can help me
to address the problem. Any idea?

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtkmm-list/2003-September/msg00238.html

Cheers,
Dan


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