Re: Gio & memory management

[John Vetterli <jvetterli users sourceforge net>]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 08:05:59PM +0200, nico wrote:
> I would like to know your opinion about the problem with the memory 
> usage, that I was talking about in my previous mails... Did someone 
> test the script? Did someone look charts that I make? Does it use the 
> same quantity of memory to scan directories? If everything is alright 
> with the code, I guess, I have to create a bug report. Do you think, I 
> could expose my problem in gtk-devel-list gnome org (the problem is 
> quiet critical).

I tried to reply earlier, but I didn't see my posting on the list, so I 
guess it didn't get through.

The problem may be a simple one: the "." and ".." directories.  Unless
g_file_enumerate_children filters these out for you (the online
documentation makes no mention of doing so) you need to ignore these.
Otherwise, you'll just keep scanning the same directory, or its parent,
over and over again.

Have a look at the program output.  Do you see "ENTER IN xxx" with the
same directories repeatedly?

HTH
JV