Re: Memory Leaks

[Todd Fisher <toddf simosoftware com>]

Andrew Krause wrote:

> I think this is more of a general C/C++ question, but I'll try
> here. My problem is that as my application runs longer, the memory
> usage slowly creeps up higher and higher. For example, if I call
> my Environment Settings dialog five times in a row, each time it
> uses more memory.
>
> Now this makes sense except that I am hiding the dialog and then
> using g_free() to free the memory that was allocated by the dialog
> after each hide. It sort of becomes a problem after a while
> because too much memory is being used, although this threshold
> usually doesn't appear for a few hours.
>
> I know I am probably just being ignorant, but I've never programmed
> any application that was large enough that I had to worry about
> memory allocation at all. Thanks for any help you can give me!
>
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You might want to have a look at valgrind.

At least with version 2.2 the following syntax should tell you something 
about memory leaks in your application:

valgrind --tool=memcheck --num-callers=20 --leak-check=yes  ./yourappname

http://www.valgrind.org

-Todd