Subject: Re: X problems
To: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/15/1997 08:44:43
On Mon, Sep 15, 1997 at 01:30:41AM -0400, Ken Hornstein wrote:
> >Nope, not yet (unless that's what GIMP normally does).  But what makes the
> >NetBSD malloc function like this?  Why do we have such a malloc at all if
> >it slowly eats up all memory..? (Not a flame bait, just a clueless person
> >asking :)
> 
> With all due respect ... it _does_ seem to be only you.  Is it possible
> that the particular X server for your particular video card has a memory
> leak?

Well, if I use the internal malloc of XFree, there's no leak - there's only
the lack of performance type of problem.  Someone mentioned that one reason
for the internal malloc system of XFree is the "leakage" of some other malloc
implementations.

  -jm


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