Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Freeciv tickles XF memory leak?

[Lalo Martins <lalo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 20, Daniel Burrows decided to present us with:
> 
>   However, it seems to be going into swap rather than being deallocated.  I
> only get this if I run more than one instance of civclient at once, and then
> it doesn't *seem* to go up unless I run even more.  My guess is that the X
> server is sitting on allocated memory for future use.  So this isn't a
> problem.

I'm not an X expert, but I remember this very same discussion in
the very early days of Enlightenment. I remember Raster telling
us of how the X server doesn't know about freeing memory, so
this memory remains allocated to be reused later. A good test
is: immediatly after you do that (close civclient and check
memory usage), open civclient again and check memory once more.

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