RE: Size of application is huge

["Andersen, Jan" <jandersen informatica com>]

Yes - is that the problem? BTW - is there any documentation of the amount of resources each widget uses?

/jan


-----Original Message-----
From:   Vincent Torri [mailto:torri math u-strasbg fr]
Sent:   Thu 05-Aug-04 22:32
To:     Andersen, Jan
Cc:     gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
Subject:        Re: Size of application is huge

did you compile with the -g flag ?

Vincent TORRI

On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Andersen, Jan wrote:

> I have made a simple (simplish) application: it reads a configuration and based on this it creates an 
> information display. The information is organized thus: 
>
> - The toplevel is a notebook with a number of tabs. 
> - Each tab contains another notebook with a number of tabs
> - Each tab in those notebooks contains a GtkTreeView displaying a GtkListStore with up to <100 lines of 
> text.
>
> The toplevel notebook typically has 8 pages and each second level notebook has 4 pages.what shocks me is 
> the fact that it uses about 318MB from start. Another problem is that after several hours of use it will 
> sometimes allocate everything in the machine (up to 1.5GB - all real and virtual storage), then it will 
> dump it all as a core file.
>
> Is it reasonable that this construction uses 318MB?
>
> The other problem is probably because I do something wildly stupid somewhere, I'll catch that eventually, 
> but if GNOME is that wasteful with its memory, I'd better find another tool.
>
> /jan
>
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