begin quote On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 17:53:20 +0300 Theofilos Intzoglou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi a_k_b! > > Another app that seemed to eat all my available memory was xchat > version 1.8.x that used gtk+1.2.x. After 2 or 3 hours of chatting in > the gentoo channel resulted in the X using about 256MB RAM (all of it > that is :-P) and 250MB swap making the system unstable and only > usuable after I pushed the magic button of reset :-) I have no > problems with the 2.x versions of xchat as it uses gtk2 and it seems > that it works much better that 1.2.x. If you want to try another > multiprotocol IM client have a look at ayttm(previously known as > everybuddy). > Actually Xchat-2 still has what appears to be memoryleaks. it won't harass the X system, but after a while online it will keep allocating memory, and never lets it go, not even when closing all windows and server connections. This doesn't affect the X server in the same way though , so it might be less of an issues, but still, another example of sloppy coding :-/ //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end
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