Re: 23.0.50; Emacs CVS segfaults on M-x delete-frame on Debian sarge under XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1

[Jan Djärv]

Leo skrev:
> On 2008-02-27 17:08 +0000, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
>>   > It is a well known bug in Gtk+ when closing a display.  Use Gtk+ 2.10
>>   > or newer.  The bug is not fully fixed there either, but it just leaks
>>   > memory, it doesn't crash.
> 
> How much memory does it leak?

Not much, and it only leaks when you close the last frame in an Emacs that has
several displays open.  I think it is below 1 kbyte.

> 
> My Emacs built from CVS 2008-02-22 is consuming a lot of memory:
> 
>  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 3881 leo       20   0  145m 122m  10m R  3.0 12.3  40:49.61 emacs
> 
>> How about printing a warning about problems with older Gtk versions
>> configure time?
>> It seems likely that people will run into this if they start playing
>> with the multi-tty functionality ...
> 
> Has this GTK bug been fixed in gtk+ 2.12.x?
> 

It is marked as fixed in bugzilla.

        Jan D.