On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 15:23 +0200, nico wrote: > Hello > I m developing an application using pygtk under ubuntu. > > For creation of thumbnails on an image list ( inside a gtk.Treeview), I > create a pixbuf for each thumbnail. > > After power up of my laptop , I load the program and my 500 images ( > image loading is made on background) , for the creation of pixbuf, I > can see many disc access to load the pixbuf ( I use the command > pixbuf_new_from_file ). > > Then if I quit the application, and reload the program, The load time is > very short, and I can no more notice disc access. It's like my pixbufs > stays in memory, and gtk application did not need to reload from file. > It's very useful for loading time but I don't understand why and how > the buffers "stays in memory" > > How it is possible to force my application to start with the same > behavior as the first launch ( many disc accces), without rebooting my > laptop each time (;-() . I need that to optimize the loading of the > pixbuf on background. it is the operating system that does this for you, not GTK. the only way i know that you can stop this is to run something before your application that starts up which will completely clear what is called the "buffer cache". there are a number of ways of doing this. one can be to run a grep across the whole filesystem. another is a small program that allocates more and more memory until it fails. _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
