On 2013-12-15 05:47:23 -0600 Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > testing stuff before "release" as Fred asked gets me to this (I think this > problem has been around since a while, it just happened that yesterday I > stressed everything with very big files). A couple of weeks ago I had my > image viewer crash under OpenBSD on an older Laptop, but I didn't consider > that back then. > > 1) Use current LaternaMagica > 2) load very big images (e.g.30/40 MPixels) and view them back and forth > 3) check memory > > What you will notice is that while LaternaMagica stays about constant in > memory requirements, the memory allocated to Xorg grows and grows (I got it > here in the 1-2G range, on older system it crashes). > > I suppose we cache our images in the X server and do not release them well, > in this case they are very big and it becomes apparent. > If LM is closed regulary, most of the Xorg RAM will be freed again. > > I don't know where the fault is, but I suppose it shouldn't be in > LaternaMagica itself, since I the application ram doesn't increase much. > I tried to do the same on my Mac and everything works fine, further > supporting that it is not LM itself. > > I will try with xlib and art backends. > > Riccardo > A couple of days ago, testing fisicalab, I get this warning: FisicaLab[3532] WARNING ... there are 1000 timers scheduled in mode ModalPanelMode of <NSRunLoop: 0x82758d0> I can't reproduce this, but seems important. Germán. _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
