Re: TreeView crashes X server?

["Arjan J. Molenaar" <arjanmolenaar hetnet nl>]

On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 11:13, James Henstridge wrote:
> Arjan J. Molenaar wrote:
> 
> >Hi, 
> >
> >I'm having some problems with the TreeView stuff of GTK+ 2.0. It seems
> >like this widget somehow causes an X server crash. If for some reason
> >the X server itself doesn't crash I get a message that I should use the
> >--sync option to produce reliable coredumps. However, if I turn on this
> >option, the program works (mostly) fine. 
> >
> >Well, I encountered the problem when I was writing a small program in
> >Python (and used the PyGTK bindings). This (Python) might be the
> >problem, but according to some checks I did, the problem seems to be
> >somewhat more sophisticated.
> >
> If you are using the (horrendously) leaky GenericTreeModel python class 
> as a base, it could be that you are simply running out of memory. 
>  Generally, a client can't crash the X server (if it can, then it is a 
> bug in the X server).  However, if the system runs out of memory, you 
> may run into problems.

As far as I can see, the system is not running out of memory (or a
request is made for a memory segment > my mem)...

BTW. What is a good way to do some memory debuging on the tree
model/view? It works like a charm, but if it really leaks that much,
it's not really usable...

> If it isn't a memory issue ignore the above, and maybe someone else can 
> help you :)
> 
> James.
> 
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