[Glade-devel] memory problems using libglade2

[Hongli Lai]

On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 02:29, Bas Driessen wrote:
>  
> Hello All,
>  
> I am using libglade for displaying screens in my applications. This
> whole concept works great, however I have a memory problem. It appears
> that libglade keeps on using more memory while running the application
> and it appears that it never releases any memory when closing screens
> for instance. I have created a small reproducible below and I hope
> somebody can help me find the problem. 
>  
> I am using RedHat Linux 8.0 with glade 1.1.3 and libglade 2.0.1
>  
> The test application does the following. It opens a screen with a
> button. By pressing the button it opens a 2nd screen with a button. By
> pressing that button the 2nd screen is destroyed and screen1 is the
> active screen again.
>  
> Open a 2nd terminal window and run a tool as "top" for instance. On my
> machine the %MEM starts at 4.2 and after it opening and closing the
> screen in my test application it goes relatively quickly up to 5 and
> further. I realize that this is a small test application, but with my
> big application, memory is filling up in very quick.
>  
> I hope that or anyone can point me out the problem in my (small piece
> of) source code below, or confirm that there are memory problems to be
> expected when using libglade.
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Bas.


NEVER trust top's output about memory. Memory handling is complicated,
you can't just judge the memory usage by looking at top's numbers. The
memory usage you see probably includes shared memory, buffers, caches,
and I don't know how many more things.