[PD] memory leak in pd gui?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Do you have an example patch that causes this?  Which CPU type?  pd- 
vanilla or pd-extended?

.hc

On Apr 28, 2007, at 3:53 PM, John Harrison wrote:

> I am running Pd 0.39-2 on ubuntu Dapper. It seems as though if I leave
> Pd running for more than several days, the entire computer freezes or
> becomes sluggish to the point of being unusable. I can hear the disk
> thrashing like crazy.
>
> By setting up a cron job writing ps -auxw to a new time-stamped  
> file in
> a directory every 5 minutes, I can clearly see by looking at these  
> files
> that the problem is that Pd slowly but surely eats all the memory
> resources of the machine. If I run the same patch with the nogui  
> option,
> the problem disappears. The thing is, I need to run this patch
> indefinitely *and* I need the gui.
>
> Am I seeing a memory leak in the gui and is this a known problem?
>
> -John
>
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