Panel memory leak?

[Peeter Vois]

Hi,

It was nice to read that CVS version does not have the problem anymore.
Currently I am more like user than developer, so I am using the
distributions. My version is XFCE-4.0.6 .

I would be happy to see some day that XFCE-4 will be fast enough for
130MHz 486 with 48M RAM. Currently XFCE-3 is the only choice because
XFCE-4 will take too much memory away.

Whatever way will be used to manage the memory, top will show how much
is taken away and this memory is not available for other apps anymore.
My point was not if the free() function is used correctly, my point was
that my system did not have anymore memory to open xterm and 300M for
panel is not what XFCE wants to achieve. So, memory leak is expected
clearly if panel does something like that. I did point that
trigger-launcher was the one that was in correlation with the problem,
so the panel's code might be all right.

Best Regards
Peeter

Olivier Fourdan kirjutas T, 21.09.2004 kell 23:21:

> Hi
> 
> GTK FAQ clearly states that "top" should not be used for tracking
> "memory leak" : http://www.gtk.org/faq/#AEN703
> 
> If you really want to track a memory leak, better use valgrind...
> 
> Cheers,
> Olivier.
> 
> On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 21:54, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> > Peeter Vois wrote:
> > > Hi !
> > > 
> > > I did play a little more with possibilities and top, and I did find that 
> > > the memory leak works rock-solid. Here comes step by step how to do it:
> > > 
> > > 1. Add to the panel the trigger launcher,
> > > 2. Do not fill any inputboxes,
> > > 3. For better memory leak performance make it check every second the 
> > > condition,
> > > 4.Start terminal and watch the `top` output 'M' key will show most 
> > > memory requiring app at the top
> > > 5. For safety do not let it work too long time
> > > 6. Remove the trigger launcher from the panel
> > > 7. Notice that the panel does not free the memory allocated during the 
> > > trigger launcher did work.
> > > 
> > 
> > I'm afraid I can't reproduce this in the CVS version :/ Does anyone else 
> > see this?
> > 
> > 	Jasper
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