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Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:52:09 +0900 (JST)
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To: jon at ffconsultancy.com
Subject: Re: [Lablgtk] Leaking pixmaps
From: Jacques GARRIGUE <garrigue at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
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From: Jon Harrop <jon at ffconsultancy.com>

> Has anyone found a bug where using pixmaps causes a memory leak resulting in X 
> consuming all memory and dying?
> 
> I just ditched pixmaps in favour of direct rendering which fixed the problem 
> and the symptom deterred me from investigating...

This is not a bug, but the normal behaviour since pixmap are on the
server side, and it would be complicated to manage them properly.
This is the reason there is a Gdk.Pixmap.destroy function, so that you
can destroy pixmaps early when you don't need them anymore.
examples/timer.ml shows how to use it.

Jacques

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