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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Memory leaks in KMail
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-04-29 19:17:56
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On Friday, 27. April 2001 22:46, Don Sanders wrote:
> On Friday 27 April 2001 16:47, Denis Perchine wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > 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.
>
> Maybe there was always a memory leak there, maybe it is much more of a
> problem now as maybe updateMessageMenu is called much more often than it
> used to be. Maybe it was only called on right click or when clicking on the
> message menu but now it is (more or less) called whenever a message is
> read.
>
> IMO obviously updateMessageMenu should only be called on right click of a
> message header or when the message menu is pulled down. Coolo any chance of
> you agreeing on this?
As I told you, this can't work as the toolbar buttons are disabled too. The 
name is just wrong, haem historical.

Greetings, Stephan

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