RE: Size of application is huge

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

I don't think I do it wrong, but it is my first application with GNOME (always stuck to server code, much 
cleaner). I tried to recompile without -g, but it still uses 317MB. And I put in getchars() after each widget 
was allocated - this shows me that they each time I allocate a notebook or liststore the application grows 
about 8 - 10MB (seen in gnome-system-monitor).

BTW - I use Mandrake 10 if that makes any difference.

/jan

-----Original Message-----
From:   John Cupitt [mailto:jcupitt gmail com]
Sent:   Thu 05-Aug-04 22:48
To:     Andersen, Jan
Cc:     gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
Subject:        Re: Size of application is huge
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.