[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [Patch] New city dialog (8a)

[Trent Piepho <xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > > X11 resources.
> > 
> 
> > this is very possible. I haven't gone through carefully to make sure
> > everthing gets freed. I guess a check would be to only have one
> > city. Open and close the dialog several times. The max memory usage
> > shouldn't change after the first open?
> 
> Yes. But I think it isn't easy to debug this. Maybe you can do a
> normal memory leak test as a preparation step?!

They way you debug this is to look at every single instance where you allocate
memory or do something that allocates resources on the X server.  Then you
make sure that all those will be freed in some way.  It's very hard.  I spent
many hours removing memory leaks from the client.