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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Memory leaks in KMail
From:       Denis Perchine <dyp () perchine ! com>
Date:       2001-04-30 12:28:30
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On Monday 30 April 2001 19:21, Don Sanders wrote:
> On Monday 30 April 2001 11:47, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > On Sunday, 29. April 2001 22:39, Don Sanders wrote:
> > > I believe enabling/disabling of (not yet created?) toolbar buttons is
> > > less important than fixing the memory leak.
> >
> > I commit a patch to folderToPopup and now there is no updateMessageMenu
> > in a call path to a leaking instruction.
>
> I have updated kmmainwin.cpp and kmmainwin.h and the leak in
> updateMessageMenu is still present. (Just add a return at the start of
> updateMessageMenu and use the method I outlined in an earlier mail to
> confirm this).

Can confirm this.

> There is a small memory leak in khtml (or at least kmreaderwin) as well but
> it's very minor compared to the updateMessageMenu leak.

So as this. It is for sure not related to KHTML when I press Right mouse 
button, again, and again, and memory leaks.

> > And if Dennis said it leaks if he goes to a larger message, this
> > indicates even more that it's not related to updateMessageMenu as this
> > code has no relation to the size of a message. Either it leaks always the
> > same amount or it doesn't leak. The leak you and Dennis see is either in
> > khtml or in kmail's use of khtml.
>
> No. It's just that large messages require more memory to display than
> smaller messages and once memory has been allocated by an application on
> linux (and all unixes?) it is not given back to the operating system.
>
> BFN,
> Don.
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Sincerely Yours,
Denis Perchine

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