Stability and Memory Pressure in 8.2

Marco Pesenti Gritti mpgritti at gmail.com
Fri Sep 12 04:52:57 EDT 2008


On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:22 AM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> So a moderate grow in memory footprint is not likely to be the
> problem. My suspicion is that some *very common* operation in the UI
> or our APIs has the potential to eat up a big chunk of your memory
> very quickly. For example: perhaps switching screens a few times in a
> row (with the screencap hook we now have in Sugar) adds a lot of
> memory pressure? Does the screencap hook get triggered on frame
> view/hide?

What we know so far is that budding appearing/disappearing leaks a lot
of memory. We are working on that.

Marco



More information about the Devel mailing list