On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 12:23 AM, dE <de.tec...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/14/13 17:02, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 3:27 AM, dE <de.tec...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I was monitoring the memory usage before and after execution of
>>> g_object_unref and gtk_list_store_clear, and it didnt change the memory
>>> usage by a bit.
>>>
>>> Is this normal (am I doing it right?)?
>>
>> What are you monitoring, and how ?
>>
>> It is i normal that freeing memory does not change the resource
>> consumption of the process. The freed memory will be available for
>> reuse by malloc, but malloc does not immediately return the memory to
>> the OS.
>
>
> So I'll try allocating like.... 7GB of memory to fill up the ram, after
> finishing, it should free. I'll report back.
For more fine grained memory profiling you should use valgrind.
See some hints here for running your Glib program with valgrind:
https://live.gnome.org/Valgrind
Cheers,
-Tristan
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