Re: Pixbuf loading question

[nico <nbd free fr>]

Paul Davis a écrit :
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> it is the operating system that does this for you, not GTK.
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wow my operating system is so clever ;-)
> the only way i know that you can stop this is to run something before
> your application that starts up which will completely clear what is
> called the "buffer cache". there are a number of ways of doing this. one
> can be to run a grep across the whole filesystem. 
If I understand correct a command like :
"grep -R dummy /" ?

> another is a small
> program that allocates more and more memory until it fails.
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Do you have an example for that ? Like always creating a big object in
a  for ever loop ?
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Thanks !