On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 03:29:39PM -0700, Greg Walters <gwalters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > How do you delete the image? I *know* that $image->delete sufficed to delete
> > an image totally, but this was some months ago.
>
> That is what I essentially did using the gimp_image_new() and
> gimp_image_delete() subroutines.
>
> > (ps: gimp-1.0 has various but rather small memory leaks so after millions
> > of operations your perl-server and the gimp will grow by a few megabytes.
> > This does not affect image deletion, however).
>
> This must be what I am seeing (as we are running gimp-1.0.4).
I don't think so, as you would not see superflous layers! you must be
hitting something larger. It *might* be possible that you would have to
delete all layers first in 1.0 (but I can't really remember ;)
> in a cron (weekly or so) to kill Gimp and the Perl server and then
> restart them just to keep things under control.
... which is a sensible thing to do anyway. gimp was not really tested
under this kind of conditions (not being a mere library).
And, while I plugged all the memleaks I found in 1.0, 1.2 might just
introduce new ones ;)
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