Re: Debugging application

["Fernando Apesteguía" <fernando apesteguia gmail com>]

On 12/18/06, Fernando Apesteguía <fernando apesteguia gmail com> wrote:
> Hello list!
>
> I'm developing a gtk application. The point is that I see in Gnome
> System Monitor that my application (a loop that continuously read a
> file and update data in the window) is eating more memory as it is
> executing... There are no problems (no errors or warnings) during
> compilation and valgrind, with: -v --leak-check=full doesn't show any
> problems of my code.
>
> However, it seems to be some problems with other code (like CORBA and
> more...). The fact is that my application grows (slowly) as Gnome
> System Monitor says: it starts with 4.6 MB and it reaches 5.6 after
> more than an hour...
>
> The point is that if I look at the gnome-system-monitor process in
> itself, this program also grows from 5.2 to 6.4...
>
> Is this normal? Is this related to the GSlice allocator or something similar?
> Should I be worried about memory leaks in my application? If I
> should... since valgrind doesn't show any errors, which tool should I
> use?

OK, after the application reached 7.3 MB it went down (according to
gnome-system-monitor) to 6.4 again...

Any clues?

> Thanks in advance.