[Ipe-discuss] Possible memory leak

Otfried Cheong otfried at ipe.airpost.net
Mon Jan 4 03:14:14 CET 2010


T T wrote:

> At start-up the memory consumption looks like this:
> 
> 64MB virtual
> 18MB working set
> 0.5MB Lua (from about Ipe)
> 
> After a few edits of large path:
> 
> 950MB virtual
> 400MB working set
> 1MB Lua (from about Ipe)
> 
> After undo of all edits and adding something to the drawing (to clear
> the undo stack) those numbers stay the same, so it doesn't look like
> this is a problem with the undo stack.

The Lua memory consumption will only go down after garbage collection, 
and virtual memory never goes down, so it's difficult to draw 
conclusions like this.

I've opened a bug report (#328), you could attach your file there if you 
want.  I'll look at this in a few weeks.

Otfried




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