Dominik Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 08:16:33AM -0400, Dan Espen wrote: > > Dominik Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 10:56:55AM -0400, Dan Espen wrote: > > > > Dominik Vogt <fvwm-workers@fvwm.org> writes: > > > > > > I don't normally use icon titles so I might have missed them > > > > > > in previous tests. Also I'm not sure if leaks at termination > > > > > > are really leaks, if you are going to exit, theres no point in > > > > > > freeing things. It does look like there were 8 icon fonts allocate > d. > > > > > > Thats close to the number of windows I created. > > > > > > > > > > You can easily verify that with the patch you suggest (already > > > > > committed). I see the growing size too, but to a smaller extent > > > > > (with the patch, I did not try before). > > > > > > > > The sizes I saw were less than the 10-20K per process reported. > > > > I'd guess the memory lost by failing to free a font would vary > > > > depending on the X server. > > > > > > > > > Sometimes some > > > > > application seems to freak out and start to consume memory slowly, > > > > > but I could not identify which yet. I suspect it's either > > > > > FvwmButtons (unlikely) or one of the swallowed apps (xload or > > > > > xosview). Well, perhaps one of these is simply recording a > > > > > history in malloc'ed memory. > > > > > > > > I'm only looking at the memory used by fvwm2, thats all that was > > > > mentioned by Andrey. > > > > > > Could you set Purify to the cause and see if it helps identifying > > > any leaks here? > > > > I'm not sure what you are asking for. > > Would you like me to run FvwmButtons under Purify? > > No, I mean fvwm itself. If there is a memory leak, Purify might > be able to detect it.
Maybe I wasn't clear at the time. I ran Purify before and after the fix was applied. There was a leak before and the leak was gone after. -- Dan Espen 444 Hoes Lane Room RRC 1C-214 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Piscataway, NJ 08854 Phone: (732) 699-5570 -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
