Hi, Marc Lehmann <pcg@xxxxxxxx> writes: > It's simple: i had(!) a script which loaded and analyzed thousands of > (checked) jpegs and (unchecked) gifs. Broken gifs tend to hurt gimp badly, > with effects ranging from gimp filling all virtual memory to segfaulting > (and yes, sometimes cycling in the signal-catching code which, AFAIR, we > agreed to disable in 1.2). you are aware that there's a command-line option to control the stack-trace behaviour? I'd like to see your script or at least have a description of what it did so we can try to debug the behaviour you are describing. Using memprof it should be possible to find your leaks. Salut, Sven