[ruby-gnome-users-en] memory leak in ruby-gtk app

[Grunde <gru...@fy...>]

Hello,

I'm writing a small app to browse a series of images. For this I use
Ruby and Gtk (Gdk::Pixbuf and Gtk::Pixmap) and libglade which is very
nice...
But my app have a (terrible) memory leakage. The strange thing is that
the leakage do not show up in the running ruby proses but in X. For each
picture I display the memory used by X increases with the approx the
size of the image. Since I often look at hundreds of pictures in a row
this is BAD, and can fill my memory and swap space bringing my system to
a grinding halt.

My system is RH7.3, Ruby 1.6.7 and Ruby-Gnome-0.31.

In the post concerning the Ruby-Gnome-0.31 release there was a note on a
pixmap memory leak in the X server. Maybe this is the bug that have
bitten me? So is this bug addressed by others or maybe in the coming
Ruby-Gnome2 package? I looked at the sourceforge bug tracker but
couldn't find anything.

Any suggestions?

Best
Grunde

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