RE: Size of application is huge

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

I don't mind posting the code, but it is rather much, I feel, what with all the Makefiles and all. I made it 
with glade originally.

/jan


-----Original Message-----
From:   Michael L Torrie [mailto:torriem chem byu edu]
Sent:   Thu 05-Aug-04 23:17
To:     gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
Cc:     
Subject:        RE: Size of application is huge
On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 08:58, Andersen, Jan wrote:
> 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).

Post your code and I'm sure someone can tell you where the problems
are.  This sounds very much like a huge memory leak in your code
somewhere.

Michael


> 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.
>
>
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