Re: apparent leak in widget creation/destroy

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Friday 18 November 2005 15:56, Boncek, John wrote:
> We have 2 large C++ application programs using GTK 2.2.4 which have had
> persistent problems in running out of memory.  We have narrowed the
> problem down to a small test case, shown below, which consumes all
> available memory until locking up the system.  We run this test case with
> the free command in another terminal window to show free memory on a
> half-second cycle, thus:
>       free -o -m -s 0.5
> The widget-creation call can be either gtk_fixed_new or
> gtk_drawing_area_new.

You have received the correct answer but for more details see 
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkObject.html .  (If in doubt you 
could always try reading the documentation!)

Chris