Re: Gdk Pixbufloader not freeing memory

[Ed Halley <ed halley cc>]

Perl FAQ: How can I free an array or hash so my program shrinks?
You can't.

     http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6.1/pod/perlfaq3.html

On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 08:28, dams idm fr wrote:
> "Jason Forkey" <jason forkey net> said:
>
> > I had a problem using the pixbufloader with Gtkperl.  Basically the loader
> > object doesn't seem to be releasing memory even when it is explicitly undef'd.
> > I wrote a small test script to try to isolate the problem.  It creates a window
> > with a single button.  Every time you click the button an image (hard coded in
> > the script) will be loaded using the pixbufloader.  If I run this program and
> > watch the memory usage with top, I can see that the memory utilization for the
> > script just keeps increasing.  Has anyone seen this before?  Is there a
> > workaround?
>
> is the memory released after the program (ie perl interpreter) is terminated?
>
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> dams
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