[PD] [GEM] - bug loading pictures with pix image for a long time ?

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

Georg Holzmann wrote:
> Hallo!
> 
> 
>>This is a known memory leak in loading many files (image?) over time.
>>
>>Did anyone narrow it down? I saw it first 2 years ago...

i tried today but couldn't find any problems (i did some benchmarking
with loading 2 images several 1000 times alternatingly). leaktracer
reported 288038 bytes being not freed (but this also happens when i was
just loading the images a few times)

there is a possibility that the memory leak is in the caching done by
[pix_image] (the cache could go infinitely large), which is not
triggered when just loading 2 different images.

anyhow, could someone send a small patch that is known to leak ?

> 
> hm - that's interesting ... I also will use GEM in an installation in a few
> weeks ...
> 
> @Gem-devs: is this a bug in the image loader (image2mem), or specific to
> pix_image ?
> Or has anyone more infos?

i just noticed that there was a HUGE leak in [pix_buffer]'s
"open"-message (not freeing the memory of the loaded image after the
data was copied into the pix-buffer)

however, i have fixed that (in the CVS)

i haven't found any other leak (there is no caching done in pix_buffer,
so i guess my assumptions are true even for 10000 different images)

mfg.a.dsr
IOhannes