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

[Masao M. <mu...@hi...>]

Hi,

On 10 Mar 2003 12:54:22 +0100

> 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.

Is this the same problem as follows ?
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=657306&group_id=35786&atid=415644

> 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?

Ruby-GNOME2 has already solved this problems. Please try it if you can.

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.:% Masao Mutoh<mu...@hi...>