On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 15:42, Jonas Aaberg wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using pango to render an image of a text (of default gtk font) via > freetype part of pango. I believe that I have manage to hit > a major memory leak in pango. For some reason the default TTF font gets > loaded over and over again. > (Look in /proc/<pid>/maps) > > I have attached a small example that rapidly consumes more and more > memory. I have really tried to see if I have failed to dealloc > something, but I have not been able to find something. Please correct me > if I'm all wrong! It's a known problem that PangoFT2Fontmap leaks: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143542 But font maps are big, expensive objects. You really don't want to be repeatedly creating and freeing them anyways. Regards, Owen
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