Re: xfree leaking memory?

2002-11-14 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Chris, Thanks for clearing that up. That's a lot better than what you had thought. Harold Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 09:07:56PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 05:00:55PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: It was mentioned that the memory

Re: xfree leaking memory?

2002-11-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 09:07:56PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 05:00:55PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: It was mentioned that the memory size increased when a new X window (such as an xterm) is opened, but that it does not decrease when that window is destroyed.

RE: XFree leaking memory?

2002-11-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner;cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Konstantin N. Kudin Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 8:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XFree leaking memory? Harold I do not think I am using -rootless since I am running the standard

RE: XFree leaking memory?

2002-11-05 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Of Harold L Hunt II Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 11:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: XFree leaking memory? Konstantin, Interesting. So, this appears to be a new memory leak that has nothing to do with rootless mode. At this point I think we will need suggestions from others as to how we

RE: XFree leaking memory?

2002-11-05 Thread Konstantin N. Kudin
be tedious. Anybody got any suggestions? Harold -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner;cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Konstantin N. Kudin Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 8:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XFree leaking memory? Harold I do

RE: XFree leaking memory?

2002-11-05 Thread Ralf Habacker
In other words, it might not be able to follow NEW or MALLOC, because the object format might be too different. Try the mem_watch tool in the kde-cygwin cvs area http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=27249, which hooks any memory relating call. $ less README Memory Watcher == This

RE: XFree leaking memory?

2002-11-05 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
]On Behalf Of Ralf Habacker Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 3:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: XFree leaking memory? In other words, it might not be able to follow NEW or MALLOC, because the object format might be too different. Try the mem_watch tool in the kde-cygwin cvs area http

RE: XFree leaking memory?

2002-11-05 Thread Ralf Habacker
There is also this tool - http://devel-home.kde.org/~sewardj/ Not sure if it can be used on Cygwin, but I think it might. It depends on the glibc and this isn't ported to cygwin yet. Ralf

Re: XFree leaking memory?

2002-11-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
It was mentioned that the memory size increased when a new X window (such as an xterm) is opened, but that it does not decrease when that window is destroyed. This indicates one of a few things to me: 1) We are not freeing our window privates (directly or indirectly). This seems plausible,

Re: xfree leaking memory?

2002-11-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 05:00:55PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: It was mentioned that the memory size increased when a new X window (such as an xterm) is opened, but that it does not decrease when that window is destroyed. This indicates one of a few things to me: 1) We are not freeing our

RE: xfree leaking memory? - XWin trace.zip

2002-11-05 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
I ran XWin under Boundschecker with the following parameters: :0 -engine 1 -rootless -lesspointer Note that I didn't recompile or modify XWin from its current distribution version to do this. After starting it, I ran another instance of Boundschecker and under this one, I started WMAKER. Once

XFree leaking memory?

2002-11-04 Thread Konstantin N. Kudin
Hi all I am using the cygwin + xfree combination for my X server. I run the program for days on a W2k laptop and put the machine on stand by every night. W2k and xfree are restarted quite infrequently (once every 2-4 weeks). I have noticed in Task Manager that XWin process slowly but surely

Re: XFree leaking memory?

2002-11-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Konstantin, Are you using the ``-rootless'' command-line parameter? If so, the developer of that feature mentioned that there was a memory leak and that he was working on fixing it. If not, then we might need to look into your problem as a previously unknown problem. Harold Konstantin N.