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From: kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley	)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Server Does Not Free Widget Resources
Keywords: widget resources, memory leak
Message-ID: <1990Dec7.175818.12931@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 7 Dec 90 17:58:18 GMT
References: <593@censun1.UUCP>
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <593@censun1.UUCP> tae@censun1.UUCP (TAE) writes:
> [...]
>What we find is that upon a widget's destruction, the X server seems to
>fail to release some of the widget resources as evidenced by the fact
>that the size of server grows with each widget's creation and fails to reduce
>correspondingly in size with each widget's destruction. The amount

You will never see the server process size shrink or reduce.  That's
just how malloc/free work.

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Kaleb Keithley                      Jet Propulsion Labs
kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov

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