RE: Size of application is huge

[Michael L Torrie <torriem chem byu edu>]

On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 09:37, Andersen, Jan wrote:
> 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.

Can you put it in a gzipped tarball?  If that's still too big, post it
somewhere for download?

> /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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Michael L Torrie <torriem chem byu edu>