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

[dE <de techno gmail com>]

On 06/14/13 22:09, Chris Vine wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:41:05 +0530
> 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.
> > No, filled more than 7GB, swap was at ~350 MB, and then I loaded a
> > small table which would otherwise take less than 10 MB memory, but
> > the memory usage increased.
> Can you post the smallest compilable program which demonstrates your
> problem (run with G_SLICE=always-malloc set), and with particulars of
> how you are measuring memory usage?  That should identify if you are
> doing something wrong with how you are handling the memory in your
> program.
>
> Chris

You can have the whole source code:

http://pastebin.com/4a5DiMsQ

I'd been distributing it around to fix issues.