MenTaLguY wrote:
Hi, I was directed to recent traffic on the freebsd lists...
I suspect the memory leaks you're experiencing aren't freebsd-specific, nor are they necessarily the result of bugs in libgc proper -- one of the recurring issues we've been having has been large leaks due to the way we bridged the refcounted and garbage-collected portions of the codebase.
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other platforms as well. There may be issues with libgc on freebsd as well, but I would look at refcount leaks if you've not already done so.
I spent most of the time testing libgc since it was not in good shape on our platform but so far it looks not guilty. Thanks for the tip about possible ref counting connection. I'll try to go another way now. FYI. Today I managed to install Inkscape/win32 on Windows XP and I do believe to observe similar problem here. Test case looks like open/close Help->Totorials->Inkscape: Basics several times. Process VM size constantly growing by ~5MB per cycle.
Anyway, it sounds like you've been spending a good deal of time with debugging this; would you like to further compare notes in case we're duplicating effort?
Yep. Please keep me informed about progress.
Thanks, Alexander.