xfdesktop eating up the memory

[Toomas Römer]

Hi

> the 'memprof' GUI app is usually sufficient to find memleaks, but i've
> found that it sometimes has... issues... with xfdesktop.  valgrind is
> really the way to go, anyway.
Valgrind seemed easy enough. I started xfdesktop with valgrind and i'm logging 
to a file, so if i find anything suspicious i'll let you know.

> if you're using an older version of librsvg and/or libxml2, it's possible
> that the SVG icon loads are leaking.  not really anything i can do about
> that.
I have libxml2 2.6.11, librsvg2-2 2.8.1.

> can you describe your behavior/actions that lead up to the memory usage
> increasing?  loading different backdrops?  regenerating the menu often?
> opening up the window list?  any information you can give will be helpful
> in tracking down the problem.
Most of the time i was hitting ctrl-f1 and alt-tab, a lot. I was running and 
testing different programs, thats it. 

I tried to find out whats the window list, but windowlist.c in xfdesktop 
didn't make sense to me(i haven't used gdk before).

I usually notice the memory thing when i click the right button on the desktop 
and it takes 30seconds to load the menu. 

/toomasr

On Monday 25 October 2004 20:01, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> On 10/25/04 19:48, Toomas R?mer wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > xfdesktop takes a lot of memory. After it has been running for couple of
> > hours(3-4h) it usually takes 40% of my memory constantly and it grows
> > ~0.1% per minute. I usually kill the process and then restart it. My
> > guess is memory leaks.
> >
> > I started seeing this anomaly about a week ago, but i thought that it'll
> > get fixed and just kept updating from the cvs.
> >
> > If somebody would give some pointers how to profile that process i would
> > gladly do that.
> >
> > I'm running the xfce4 from cvs, i update it daily.
>
> the 'memprof' GUI app is usually sufficient to find memleaks, but i've
> found that it sometimes has... issues... with xfdesktop.  valgrind is
> really the way to go, anyway.
>
> if you're using an older version of librsvg and/or libxml2, it's possible
> that the SVG icon loads are leaking.  not really anything i can do about
> that.
>
> can you describe your behavior/actions that lead up to the memory usage
> increasing?  loading different backdrops?  regenerating the menu often?
> opening up the window list?  any information you can give will be helpful
> in tracking down the problem.
>
> thanks,
> brian
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