Hi,
I have the same problem. The memory leak appears during gtk_widget_destroy,
why can this happen and how could I solve it?
Ian King [ES] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Below is some simple code that creates a window and an event box, sinks
> both to retain the reference, shows the window, and then constantly add
> and remove the event box to and from the window. However when the code
> is running the heap keeps growing, the code is compiled on the latest
> OpenSolaris version and pmap shows the heap is at a very large size,
> running the binary under dbx using 'check -memuse' shows that a large
> number of allocations are being made by _XEnq
>
> Total % of Num of Avg Allocation call stack
> Size All Blocks Size
> ========== ==== ====== ====== =======================================
> 10222888 69% 98297 104 _XEnq < _XReply
>
> It looks like gtk is performing asynchronous calls to X to retrieve some
> meta information but I haven't looked in to this too deeply, is this a
> known leak or will this memory eventually get reclaimed?
>
> Thanks for your time
>
> Ian King
>
>
> #include <gtk/gtk.h>
>
> int main( int argc,
> char *argv[] )
> {
>
> GtkWidget *window;
> GtkWidget *event_box;
>
> gtk_init (&argc, &argv);
>
> window = gtk_window_new (GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
> g_object_ref ((GObject*)window);
> gtk_object_sink ((GtkObject*)window);
>
> event_box = gtk_event_box_new();
> g_object_ref((GObject*)event_box);
> gtk_object_sink((GtkObject*)event_box);
>
> gtk_widget_show(window);
>
>
> for (int i = 0; i < 100000; i++)
> {
> gtk_container_add((GtkContainer*) window, event_box);
> gtk_container_remove((GtkContainer*) window, event_box);
> }
> return 0;
> }
>
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