[Freeciv-Dev] Re: out of disk space? (PR#615)

[Paul Dean <Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thue <thue@xxxxxxx> writes:

> On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 13:41:19 Paul Dean wrote:
> > Thue <thue@xxxxxxx> writes:
> > 
> > > It is known there is a memory leak in the windows client. It is
> > > probably in windows gdk. Someone go fix. :)
> > 
> > Also in the gtk client.  I have 250MB of swap space and it gradually
> > gets used up while playing.  I quite the client, restart and it's back
> > to normal.
> > 
> > How do I go about tracking a memory leak?
> 
> Umm, the gtk client uses gdk, so we are talking about the same thing.
> We know from earlier that the leak occurs when a unit blinks. By tracing
> the calls that function makes it seems likely to happen somewhere in
> client/gui-gtk/mapview.c:update_map_canvas() . And from there it seems
> likely to happen in gdk_draw_pixmap(). So start by checking if that is
> correct by modyfying the code there to call that function 10000 times in a
> row. If the leak is there you will then know :)

I just did, and I didn't know.  :)

> Assuming that really is the problem, get the gdk source code for windows
> and start looking at it :).

I must be missing something... why would the source code for windows
matter when the bug is in the linux library?

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Paul
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