Re: [gtk-list] Re: memory leak GtkText

[Jason Nordwick <nordwick scam XCF Berkeley EDU>]

Rob Browning, on  5/7/1998, wrote the following:
> 
> Jason Nordwick <nordwick@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu> writes:
> 
> > It is strange how I don't have this problem with 1.0.1, hmmm...
> > Maybe it's in another library ?  (Im on Freebsd-current).
> 
> Are you sure it's a memory leak?  I haven't been following this
> discussion closely, but on some other list recently, someone was
> complaining that realloc just kept allocating new pages because of
> fragmentation problems.  The program was freeing all the appropriate
> memory, it just wasn't being re-used in the way that was expected.
> 

Check my original post on the subject, that was my conclusion, since
my memusage went up by 16k blocks systematically with the first large
buffer and didn't after that (unless I had a very large buffer).

jay
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