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Re: xfree leaking memory?


Chris,

Thanks for clearing that up.  That's a lot better than what you had thought.

Harold

Christopher Faylor wrote:

On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 09:07:56PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:

On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 05:00:55PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote:

It was mentioned that the memory size increased when a new X window (such as an xterm) is opened, but that it does not decrease when that window is destroyed. This indicates one of a few things to me:

1) We are not freeing our window privates (directly or indirectly). This seems plausible, but I don't think our window privates are even 1 kilobyte.

I thought I should point out that Cygwin doesn't currently return
deallocated memory to the windows pool. So, the heap only gets larger.

I thought I should point out that, while I wrote the function in
question, the above statement was completely wrong. I was investigating
sbrk() operation for an unrelated matter and noticed that it was
dutifully releasing unused memory back to the system.

I don't know why I thought things behaved any differently than this but
I thought I should correct any misperceptions that I caused.

cgf







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