Re: [Pysdl-devel] rect leak

[Jan E. <ch...@in...>]

On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, David Clark wrote:

>Pete Shinners writes:
> > david clark mentioned to me there was a known memory leak in the
> > rectangle object stuff i put out recently. i've been attaching the
> > new distutils to my little rect object and am pleased with all that.
>
>My apologies for the misunderstanding. I meant there was a known
>memory leak in the pySDL code, not in your rect object. I'm referring
>to the leak in the event poll/wait code mentioned in Mr. Kelm's
>posting on the 17th.

Whoa, so this could be what makes my app eat most of my 256Mb? I had an
loop which just polled the event mechanism for new events and just waited 
for a keypress, and it leaked 5Mb/s. Not too funny. I converted to using
wait instead, and now it consumes a lot less memory, but still chews up *a
lot*, compared to what the app does (30Mb).

Btw, is it my responsibilty to explicitely delete surfaces etc I don't
need anymore? I have a few of these, and they are not circularly
referenced, so thay should be garbage collected, but my app never seems to
release any memory. Thememory  usage keeps increasing as I "surf" through
my dialogs (I have a *simple* widget library, and create a few fullscreen
surfaces). Any idea as to what that could be? I probably do something
which can be considered fubar. :-)

	Chakie

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