Re: [Texmacs-dev] memory leak

[Nicklas Karlsson]

I use another program that use guile and it did not work then compiled against 
guile i think it was 1.8 but it works then compiled against 1.6.8

Nicklas

On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:57:09 +0100
Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:27:33PM +0100, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:07:18PM +0100, Gubinelli Massimiliano wrote:
> > > The same happens (at a lower rate) with Cocoa. After a minute of idle  
> > > texmacs I get the following  (4kb of 16 byte blocks allocated in the  
> > > meanwhile):
> > 
> > Notice that 4kb is not very much. I have the impression that there is
> > a much more severe leak around when you scroll down and up a non trivial
> > help document.
> 
> In fact something more intricate happens: take the << reference document >>
> 
>       Help -> Manual -> Typing simple texts
> 
> I observe a 1Mb increase in memory usage when scrolling down and back up
> four times. Nevertheless, it seems that the increase is due to the fact that
> I don't give Guile the opportunity to call (gc). If I do this manually
> (use M-X for entering scheme commands), then I need to scroll down and up
> many times before the increase in memory usage continues.
> 
> In other words: it cannot be excluded that we have actually eliminated
> the memory leak, but that we have the impression that it is still there,
> because gc is not called sufficiently often. We can of course try to
> call gc automatically every now and then.
> 
> Notice that I also tried compilation with Guile-1.4.1.
> The behaviour does not change much.
> 
> Best wishes, Joris
> 
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