Re: [ROOT] memory leak?

From: Fons Rademakers (Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch)
Date: Sun Oct 08 2000 - 12:09:02 MEST


This is a memeory leak in the pixmap handling of XFree86. We reported
this two years ago on the xfree bug report list.

Cheers, Fons.



On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 07:51:52PM +0200, Daniel Barna wrote:
> Hi Rooters,
> The following macro produces a steady increase of consumed memory on
> a linux machine:
> 
> {
> TCanvas *c = new TCanvas;
> while(1)
> {
>     gPad->DrawFrame(0,0,1,1);
>     gPad->Clear();
> }
> }
> 
> Does it have to do with the memory leak in Xfree86, is it a memory leak in
> root, or did I miss something? 
> Thanks
> Daniel

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