xfdesktop eating up the memory

[Brian J. Tarricone]

from the stack traces in the log file, it appears you aren't running the 
current libxfcegui4.  i just tried running xfdesktop through valgrind, 
and it reported some lost memory, after several menu regenerations, but 
nowhere near what you're saying.  perhaps some of the code reversions in 
the past week fixed a few memleaks that were introduced.  at any rate, 
there is a small leak (about 100k per menu regen) on my system, so let's 
see if we can find it...

ok, i found one memleak in XfceIconTheme, where i wasn't freeing a 
string i should have been, but there's still a small leak left.  i need 
to get to bed, so i'll have to look at it tomorrow.

for future reference, also pass valgrind something like 
--num-callers=20, as the default 4-frame stack traces aren't all that 
useful.  you might also want to use --show-reachable=yes.  that gives 
you a lot of spurious crap, but i have a feeling it might help here.

thanks,
brian

Toomas Römer wrote:

>Hi
>
>I forgot to mention that after 10 minutes of running it, "top" showed it using 
>16% of memory and ~2 hours later it was 42%.
>
>/toomasr
>
>On Tuesday 26 October 2004 06:57, Toomas Römer wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello
>>
>>I left xfdesktop running with valgrind for ~2hours. The command was
>>"valgrind --log-file=/home/toomasr/valgrindLOG --leak-check=yes -v
>>xfdesktop" and the resulting log file is
>>http://toomas.dev.struktuur.ee/img/valgrindLOG.pid25772
>>
>>I hope this helps.
>>
>>/toomasr
>>
>>On Monday 25 October 2004 22:02, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>On 10/25/04 20:55, Toomas R?mer wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>>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.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>neither of these things have anything to do with xfdesktop.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>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).
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>the window list is what you get when you middle-click on the desktop.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>I usually notice the memory thing when i click the right button on the
>>>>desktop and it takes 30seconds to load the menu.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>then it sounds menu-related.  i'll give it a look when i get home, as i
>>>haven't run xfdesktop through valgrind in a while.  there hasn't been
>>>much that's changed with the menu for quite a while, so it's not
>>>immediately apparent to me what could be wrong.
>>>
>>>	-brian
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