Re: Has the memory hole in Xfce been fixed yet?

[andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com>]

Andrei Popescu wrote:

On Mon,21.Jul.08, 21:39:39, green wrote:
  

On Sun, 2008.06.29, 181, andy wrote:
    

Several months ago, it became apparent from a discussion here (and info 
elsewhere) that there was a significant memory leak in Xfce4. I think that 
it had something to do with Gtk but couldn't swear to it.

Has anyone heard whether that hole has yet been plugged?
      

Because of the memory leak(s) I moved to openbox from xfce about a year ago.  
The memory leak(s) are in the xfdesktop4 package.  According to the BTS, those 
bugs have not been fixed.

I'm sorry to see a good lightweight desktop manager go the way of the big ones 
because of this and am surprised the memory leak(s) still haven't been fixed!
    

I'm currently using xfce4 from unstable and don't experience any memory 
leaks. Please post the bugnumber.

Regards,
Andrei
  

Bug#376177
http://osdir.com/ml/linux.debian.devel.xfce/2007-07/msg00029.html

Bug#440858
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_thread/thread/1f0c5562459984f3

Bugs: 376177 376372 373010
http://www.phwinfo.com/forum/linux-debian-user/208124-xfce-memory-leak-lenny.html

and
http://www.linux-archive.org/xubuntu-development/79949-memory-leak-xfce4-menu-plugin.html

HTH
A

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