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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Memory leaks in KMail
From:       Denis Perchine <dyp () perchine ! com>
Date:       2001-04-28 13:44:50
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On Saturday 28 April 2001 19:03, Don Sanders wrote:
> On Saturday 28 April 2001 07:17, Denis Perchine wrote:
> > > > Read a CVS message, that memory leak was fixed in KHTML.
> > > > And thought that this will finally fix the problem with memory leak
> > > > when reading mails. But it is not the case. When I go to the next
> > > > message approximately 100 kbytes is leaked. At least KMail grows in
> > > > size. Even when I came back to the same message it grows.
> > > >
> > > > Also it grows by approx. 200K when I right click on the item, and get
> > > > popup menu. Possibly this is a problem of kdelibs... But this is
> > > > really unacceptable. After a day of work KMail use 100-150Mb of
> > > > memory.
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > It's updateMessageMenu again. Just "return;" in
> > > KMMainWin::updateMessageMenu() to verify that yourself.
> >
> > Not completely... When I do this it still leaks memory. But amount is
> > less. Something like 40K per message. It looks like the leak is in
> > kdeui...
>
> I can't reproduce that. The only memory leak here is the one in
> updateMessageMenu.

I can confirm this. You are right. It grows only when I go to larger message.

> I tested this using the following method:
> 1) Read some messages.
> 2) Read those same messages again.
> 3) In top look at the SIZE of kmail
> 4) Read those same messages again about 100 times.
> 5) If in step 4 SIZE maxes out there is no memory leak when reading
> messages.
>
> Perhaps you were reading new messages every time, in which case memory
> grows when the new message selected is larger than any previous seen
> message.
>
> Or maybe another memory leak has been inserted in the last few days since I
> updated.
>
> I agree it's a serious problem, if no one objects I'll fix the problem with
> updateMessageMenu, changing it back to the way it used to be if necessary.
>
> BFN,
> Don.
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Sincerely Yours,
Denis Perchine

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