Memory leak in xfdesktop?

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at corsac.net
Fri May 12 21:06:12 CEST 2006


On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 11:45 -0700, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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> On 5/12/2006 11:03 AM, Mike Massonnet wrote:
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> > % ps -ocomm,start,vsz,rss -Cxfdesktop
> > COMMAND          STARTED    VSZ   RSS
> > xfdesktop         May 11  44996 19376
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> > As you can see I'm running it since yesterday (it's a very fresh svn
> > recompilation) and I don't have this problem. I'm not using desktop
> > icons anyway. Could you have a look at your memory without the desktop
> > icons? It's just a guess.
> 
> How is that at all useful?  You aren't even using the large, new feature
> in xfdesktop that isn't well-tested and is likely to have memory-related
> bugs.  Every system is different; usually a "I don't see this here" post
> isn't all that helpful.

Well because he said that he didn't had the problem without icons, the
problem could be in the icon stuff. That's useful. It wasn't just a "i
don't see this here".

He precised to try testing without icons, so mtc could check on his box
if he had the same behavior...
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Yves-Alexis Perez




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