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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE Application memory management
From:       Sebastian =?iso-8859-1?q?Tr=FCg?= <trueg () k3b ! org>
Date:       2007-01-29 15:49:40
Message-ID: 200701291649.41111.trueg () k3b ! org
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On Monday 29 January 2007 16:32:03 Lubos Lunak wrote:
> On Monday 29 January 2007 16:05, Sebastian Trüg wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I do not know that much about memory management so I have to ask:
> > After closing a big project in K3b the memory usage as reported by "ps
> > aux" does not change at all although everything is properly "deleted".
> > When I then reopen the project the memory seems to be reused since usage
> > only increases slightly as opposed to a big increase when opening the
> > project for the first time.
> > I tried this in another KDE application (khexedit) and it does release
> > all the resources after closing a file.
> > Is there anything I can do about this or might this be a memory leak
> > after all?
>
>  http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/memory/analysis.html . It's in the application
> memory analysis intro.

Hi Lubos,

thanks for the hint. So the reason could be that I allocate many small pieces, 
right? Is there anything easy I can do against this? K3b keeps blocking 
memory it does not really use (or should not use).

Cheers,
Sebastian

 
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