On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:15:52AM +0000, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> A Ter, 2004-02-17 �s 00:49, Arturo Gonz�lez escreveu:
> > I'm having a memory leak somewhere when refreshing the content of a
> > HBox. I'm not doing it in a optimized way, i know, but i want to find
> > where is the error. To remove all the content, I did:
> >
> > for i in (self.box.get_children()):
> > self.box.remove(i)
> >
> > Then i pack again all the elements (some have changed) in the box.
> >
> > I suppose that, if no references are found to self.box's childrens, they
> > are garbage-collected :P, aren't they?
>
> Yes... eventually! There has been change a few months ago with the
> way pygtk does memory management. Before that change, objects would be
> freed as soon as the reference count dropped to zero. Now, however,
> when an object loses all external references it is handed over to
> Python's cyclic garbage collector. The GC doesn't free objects right
> away. It only does its work periodically or when certain thresholds are
> reached. I suggest you look at the documentation for module gc for more
> information on this. For example, you can explicitly tell the gc to run
> at any time, to free unreference objects.
The relevant bug is at:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110261
Arturo, did a gc.collect() fix your problem?
Take care,
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