Re: Releasing client-side pixmaps

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Dag Helstad <dag helstad kreatel se> writes:

> I have now performed some tests, which show that my Linux/GTK application
> grows by approx 240kB as soon as I create a pixmap. Once a single pixmap has
> been created, only very small amounts of memory is allocated for each new
> pixmap. 
> 
> Does anyone know where the initial chunk of memory goes? 

this is just a quick guess, but I'd suspect that the memory you see
are the scratch images allocated in gdkimage.c.


Salut, Sven