memory leak

Walter C. Pelissero writes:
 > I've got a program that is using an icon-view.  After showing
 > substantial amount of icons (not at the same time) it dies of memory
 > exhaustion (within GTK control).  Beside the fact this happens when
 > the lisp process has reached a mere 200MB, I don't understand why it
 > should be growing that big.
 > 
 > Of course this is just a guess, but considering what else the program
 > is doing (not much), I believe the leak must be in the icon-view,
 > possibly due to the way I'm I'm using it.

After a little poking around I came to the conclusion that it has
something to do with contained objects.

This function runs out of memory in few seconds:

(defun leak ()
  (let ((store (make-instance 'gtk:list-store :column-types '(gdk:pixbuf) :column-names '(:thumbnail))))
    (dotimes (x 10000)
      (gtk:list-store-clear store)
      (gc :full t)
      (dotimes (x 100)
	(gtk:list-store-append store (vector (gdk:pixbuf-load #P"/path/to/a/small/file.png")))))))

-- 
walter pelissero
http://www.pelissero.de

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