[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#6831) [CVS 2003-11-10] GTK+ Client Memory Allocation failure

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=6831 >

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, awilkins@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I use the GTK2 client.
>
> Actually, it's likely that I experienced the memory leak problem was
> with a CVS version from before last week, as I don't update my client
> religiously, and I only updated to the most recent CVS version right
> before I submitted the bug report to make sure the problem still existed
> in that version.
>
> CPU is a Pentium III, 800 Mhz.  I have 512 MB of RAM and 2 GB of swap;
> the client was apparently taking up around 370 MB of RAM and 1.7 GB of
> swap when (as that is the amount that was freed after I killed it).
>
> It also appears that the timeout-after-start issue is gone now; at
> least, it didn't happen the last two times I've tried.
>
> Which reminds me that I need to file a bug report about sorting in the
> city dialogs not working correctly, since that is still present and
> doesn't appear to be in the bug database; I'll do that later today.

City report dialog? Get a never version of GTK+ 2.2.x or 2.0.x. Old
libraries had a bug. This has already been reported a couple of times.
If I hear anyone say it again, it will have to go into the FAQ. :-)

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa