Re: 1.3.5 X memory leak (progress)

2000-04-28 Thread Jonathan Corbet
> Thanks so much, Jonathan. So were you actually using the BrushedMetal > theme, or just including it as an option? I was actually using it. I think. All that got set up as I was playing around with the configuration widgets a year or two ago... I've never had time to really figure out how the

Re: 1.3.5 X memory leak (progress)

2000-04-28 Thread Dave Peticolas
> OK, following up on an idea from Heath Martin, I did a lot of digging > around in my environment trying to figure out what it is that causes > gnucash to make my X server grow without bound. In the end, it comes down > to my ~/.gtkrc file: > ># -- THEME AUTO-WRITTEN DO NOT EDIT >includ

Re: 1.3.5 X memory leak (progress)

2000-04-28 Thread Jonathan Corbet
OK, following up on an idea from Heath Martin, I did a lot of digging around in my environment trying to figure out what it is that causes gnucash to make my X server grow without bound. In the end, it comes down to my ~/.gtkrc file: # -- THEME AUTO-WRITTEN DO NOT EDIT include "/usr/share/

Re: 1.3.5 X memory leak

2000-04-26 Thread Jonathan Corbet
> Thanks for the xmon reference, by the way. I've been trying > to use it, but I get a connection refused message from the > real X server. I tried 'xhost +', but still no go. Did you > have any trouble? I had to do "xhost +" - with DISPLAY still set to talk directly to the server - before xmon w

Re: 1.3.5 X memory leak?

2000-04-26 Thread Jonathan Corbet
> I tried this for a while and wasn't able to see any change in the > server side, no matter how many transactions I entered in the register > (and let me tell you it got boring after a while). It clearly doesn't happen to everybody, or even to all that many people. > What's your "version profil

Re: 1.3.5 X memory leak?

2000-04-26 Thread Bill Gribble
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Corbet) writes: > It's not a matter of how many transactions are in the file. It's a matter > of how many are entered via the register window. Running top, I can see > the server grow with each entry I put in... I tried this for a while and wasn't able to see any cha

Re: 1.3.5 X memory leak

2000-04-25 Thread Dave Peticolas
> I ran gnucash through xmon for a bit this evening. The immediate result is > that I didn't find any obvious leaks by looking at the X protocol. Every > CreatePixmap was followed by a FreePixmap, every CreateGC by a FreeGC, and > so on. It looks like it's all right. > > I did notice a tremend

Re: 1.3.5 X memory leak

2000-04-25 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Jonathan Corbet said: > > I ran gnucash through xmon for a bit this evening. The immediate result is > that I didn't find any obvious leaks by looking at the X protocol. Every > CreatePixmap was followed by a FreePixmap, every CreateGC by a FreeGC, and > so on. It looks

1.3.5 X memory leak

2000-04-25 Thread Jonathan Corbet
I ran gnucash through xmon for a bit this evening. The immediate result is that I didn't find any obvious leaks by looking at the X protocol. Every CreatePixmap was followed by a FreePixmap, every CreateGC by a FreeGC, and so on. It looks like it's all right. I did notice a tremendous number o

Re: 1.3.5 X memory leak?

2000-04-25 Thread Randolph Fritz
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 08:13:47PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You said you lost 1meg per transaction? I have an account with 3K > transactions in it, and when I open it, my x server doesn't grow > (although rss increases 12kb) > > ps aux > root 21957 1.5 16.2 27848 15452 ? S Apr

Re: 1.3.5 X memory leak?

2000-04-25 Thread Jonathan Corbet
> You said you lost 1meg per transaction? I have an account with 3K > transactions in it, and when I open it, my x server doesn't grow It's not a matter of how many transactions are in the file. It's a matter of how many are entered via the register window. Running top, I can see the server gr

Re: 1.3.5 X memory leak?

2000-04-25 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Jonathan Corbet said: > > > > But...I've noticed that my X server seems to grow without bound while I'm [I agree with resource argument.] Lets get back on track. You said you lost 1meg per transaction? I have an account with 3K transactions in it, and when I open it, my

Re: [VA-Tech] X windows question. Re: 1.3.5 X memory leak? (fwd) (fwd)

2000-04-25 Thread Rob Walker
lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [VA-Tech] X windows question. Re: 1.3.5 X memory leak? (fwd) In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Rob Walker wrote: > > some people are noting some odd things on the gnucash list about how X > uses memory

Re: 1.3.5 X memory leak?

2000-04-25 Thread Jonathan Corbet
> > But...I've noticed that my X server seems to grow without bound while I'm > > If its the X server, then its an X server bug. X clients have no > imediate or direct effect on memory management inside the x server. > The idea is security: no single x client, no matter how malicious, > is supp

Re: 1.3.5 X memory leak?

2000-04-24 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Dave Peticolas said: > Is there a tool to find out how the X server is using its memory? > Maybe we could at least see where it's going wrong. not that I know of. --linas -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 1.3.5 X memory leak?

2000-04-24 Thread Dave Peticolas
> It's been rumoured that Jonathan Corbet said: > > > > I've been messing with 1.3.5, trying to decide if I can really move my > > family finances over and also pondering a new LWN article. Things are > > I still haven't seen the article, but I gather it was compilmentary. > Thanks. > > > But.

Re: 1.3.5 X memory leak?

2000-04-24 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Jonathan Corbet said: > > I've been messing with 1.3.5, trying to decide if I can really move my > family finances over and also pondering a new LWN article. Things are I still haven't seen the article, but I gather it was compilmentary. Thanks. > But...I've noticed tha

Re: 1.3.5 X memory leak?

2000-04-24 Thread Jonathan Corbet
[X server memory leak problem] > Could you provide some details about > your system, including library versions and video card? The system is Mandrake 7.0 running on a Sony Vaio laptop. It uses the basic SVGA X server; XFree86 is version 3.3.6. Gnome-libs is 1.0.54. Running across the net (

Re: 1.3.5 X memory leak?

2000-04-24 Thread Dave Peticolas
> Howdy, > > I've been messing with 1.3.5, trying to decide if I can really move my > family finances over and also pondering a new LWN article. Things are > coming along nicely. > > But...I've noticed that my X server seems to grow without bound while I'm > entering transactions into an accoun

1.3.5 X memory leak?

2000-04-24 Thread Jonathan Corbet
Howdy, I've been messing with 1.3.5, trying to decide if I can really move my family finances over and also pondering a new LWN article. Things are coming along nicely. But...I've noticed that my X server seems to grow without bound while I'm entering transactions into an account. Allowed to r