[mgp-users 01331] Re: Memory leaks revisited...

[nishida@csl.sony.co.jp]

From: Jonathan Nicholson <jjn@sanger.ac.uk>
Subject: [mgp-users 01326] Memory leaks revisited...
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 16:33:00 +0100 (BST)
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 > I see from September last year that there was some discussion of memory 
 > leaks in magicpoint.
 > 
 > Did anyone get anywhere with tracking this down?
 > 
 > I'm going to be using magicpoint to run a display in our reception which 
 > wants to be constantly online. I've added a '-r' option (repeating demo) 
 > which cycles endlessly through the provided slides, the memory leak could 
 > get quite serious (I estimate about 70Mb/day)!
 > 
 > Running with valgrind seems to indicate the majority of the problem is 
 > with the font handling (xft in this case), unfortunately my C programming 
 > ability gives up at this point!

Hmm.. when you use -x xft option to tell mgp not to use xft, you still have
the memory leak?

Thanks,
--
Yoshifumi Nishida
nishida@csl.sony.co.jp