Re: [rox-devel] Memory leak

[Stephen W. <wa...@ul...>]

In message <200...@ev...>
          Thomas Leonard <ta...@ec...> scribbled:

> Can anyone see what's wrong with this code? It creates a new pixbuf image
> and then, once a second, renders it as a pixmap and sets it as the
> window's background image.
> 
> On my system (Debian/Unstable, XFree86 4.1) it will sit there not doing
> much, but if you drag a window over it (to cause redrawing) then the X
> server's memory starts to increase (about 1 Mb per second while dragging).
> Stop dragging, and the memory stops increasing until you start again.

Tried it on Solaris 8 but I didn't see the effect.  Dragging a window over to
force the redraw did not affect the X server's memory (steady at 0/192/310 MB
according to System).

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