Re: Size of application is huge

[John Cupitt <jcupitt gmail com>]

That doesn't sound right. If I run

  gtk+-2.4.4/tests/testtreeview

(makes a complicated treeview with about 1500 rows in total) the
process size (both RSS and size) is about 6 MBytes.

Maybe you have some kind of frightening leak in the way you build the trees?

On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 15:12:12 +0100, Andersen, Jan
<jandersen informatica com> 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.