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

[Teemu Kalvas <chery s2 org>]

Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> writes:

> 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.

This is a possibility, I just tested the program with a box that has
glibc2.0.7pre3 instead of the pre1 release I have, but it seems to
share the same problem though.  The pattern of memory loss is
somewhat different, however, and not so much memory is leaked :-)

-- 
Teemu