Hi all, I'm trying to figure out why gthumb uses so much memory, even when it is displaying an empty folder. I've figured out that it is launching 6-8 threads, which each consume 10 MB each of "writeable/private" memory. pmap -d shows:
mapped: 141352K writeable/private: 76352K shared: 516K If I patch the code to use 64k stack size for new threads, like this: - priv->thread = g_thread_create (load_image_thread, il, TRUE, NULL); + priv->thread = g_thread_create_full (load_image_thread, il, 65536, TRUE, FALSE, G_THREAD_PRIORITY_NORMAL, NULL); memory consumption drops dramatically (and the program still works): mapped: 91284K writeable/private: 25872K shared: 516K (There are still 2-3 10MB stacks that I don't understand fully yet). The gnome api says "Only use g_thread_create_full() if you really can't use g_thread_create() instead". Why not? Are there any real downsides here? - Mike _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
