Re: Gtk+ bringing X down?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Edscott Wilson García <edscott imp mx> writes:
> This implies,
> theoretically of course, that the contents of the text widget will keep
> growing to infinity. Now I got a bug report (32Mb ram Debian GNU/Linux
> 2.2), saying that "xfsamba crashes/hangs (and takes X11 with it) when I
> click any button while it retrieves data from an win98 box". 

If the crash happens on button click I doubt it's a memory
issue. Probably some other bug, e.g. in the X server or samba or
networking.

> Could this be the GtkText widget overflowing system memory? Is there any
> limit for the amount of text in a GtkText widget (or a GtkTextBuffer in
> Gtk+1.3)? 

The only limit is if you run out of system memory.

> If so, is there any recomended way for purging the text widget
> of the oldest data?

Delete it from the buffer? 

Havoc