I remember a significant memory leak was addressed some times ago by means of a patch provided by Simon Lanzmich [1]. I wonder wether that leak really is a leak and whether is related to gtk/dfb or dfb.
regards Attilio [1] http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gtk%2B/trunk/gdk/directfb/gdkwindow-directfb.c?revision=18459&view=markup&sortby=date Harinandan S ha scritto: > Hi All, > > I ran my GTK-DFB application on x86 linux on vmware with valgrind to > check for memory leak. I observe memory leak when window is created > and destroyed. When window is created memory is allocated and not > freed when its destroyed. This accumulates and eventually after many > create destroy window cycles application is crashing. When i look at > valgrind output I observe only one leak record which keeps increasing > as the create destroy cycles are increased. I've pasted this below: > > 2700 bytes in 25 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 76 of 91 > ==21185== at 0x1B905301: calloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:176) > ==21185== by 0x1BE1945D: fusion_dbg_shcalloc (in > /root/gtk_work/install/lib/libfusion-1.1.so.0.1.0) > ==21185== by 0x1BE08733: dfb_wm_preconfigure_window (in > /root/gtk_work/install/lib/libdirectfb-1.1.so.0.1.0) > ==21185== by 0x1BE04E93: dfb_window_create (in > /root/gtk_work/install/lib/libdirectfb-1.1.so.0.1.0) > ==21185== > > I guess window destroy is not freeing memory. I am using DirectFB > 1.1.1 with GTK+ 2.12.2. > > Regards, > Harinandan > > > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Harinandan S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I am observing large amount of memory leaks while using GTK+ 2.12.2 >> over DirectFB 1.1.1 on MontaVista linux on TI Davinci. In my >> application i have multiple windows and when i create a window memory >> is allocated and accumulates when i destroy the window. Memory leak is >> not observed while running the same application on Xwindow backend . >> >> Has anyone observed memory leaks in GTK+ on DirectFB? >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Harinandan S >> > > _______________________________________________ > directfb-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-users > _______________________________________________ directfb-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-users
