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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: *Nasty* memory leakage in kdesktop
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-06-22 20:43:17
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On Friday, 22. June 2001 22:36, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> On Friday 22 June 2001 12:56 pm, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > On Friday, 22. June 2001 17:59, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> > > I have recently rediscovered the multiple wallpapers feature of
> > > kdesktop. I have a list of about 20 wallpapers that I switch between
> > > every 3 minutes. It works great with only one exception -- it leaks
> > > memory like a sieve!
> >
> > Hmm, the laptop runs since three days with a different desktopgirl every
> > 20 minutes and this is kdesktop:
> > 1126 coolo      9   0 11912  11M  9784 S     0.0  4.6   1:08 kdeinit
> >
> > And X has quite normal 21 MB. I will shorten the update time for giving
> > better numbers. But I think I would have noticed if it would leak as you
> > describe.
>
> Right, I would imagine that quite a few people use the multiple desktops.
>
> I tried upping the time to every 20 minutes but it still happened.  Mind
> you, kdesktop itself doesn't get any bigger.. X does.  The only reason I
> suspect that it's kdesktop doing it is because every time the wallpaper
> changes, the RSS size of X goes up *exactly* 1.54M
>
> Hmm.. I wonder if this has anything to do with scaled pixmaps...
Possible is everything. For example your other options could make a 
difference. Purely scaled pixmap can't be the problem as quite some from my 
collection are scaled too (max aspect scaled to be exact).

Greetings, Stephan

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