Re: GTK free function doesn't appear to have any affect.

[Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org>]

On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 12:23 AM, dE <de techno gmail com> wrote:
> On 06/14/13 17:02, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 3:27 AM, dE <de techno gmail com> wrote:
> > > I was monitoring the memory usage before and after execution of
> > > g_object_unref and gtk_list_store_clear, and it didnt change the memory
> > > usage by a bit.
> > >
> > > Is this normal (am I doing it right?)?
> >
> > What are you monitoring, and how ?
> >
> > It is i normal that freeing memory does not change the resource
> > consumption of the process. The freed memory will be available for
> > reuse by malloc, but malloc does not immediately return the memory to
> > the OS.
>
>
> So I'll try allocating like.... 7GB of memory to fill up the ram, after
> finishing, it should free. I'll report back.

For more fine grained memory profiling you should use valgrind.

See some hints here for running your Glib program with valgrind:
    https://live.gnome.org/Valgrind

Cheers,
    -Tristan