[FreeNX-kNX] Memory leak in nxcompext Png compression, patch included

[Terje Andersen]

On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:21:44 +1300
Mario Becroft <mb at gem.win.co.nz> wrote:

> I found the memory leak mentioned by me in
> <87prgnm2s0.fsf at server.ak.quickcircuit.co.nz> on the 12th of March. The
> symptoms are that nxagent (or potentially a client using the nx
> libraries) gradually grows in size, for example to greater than 1
> gigabyte, and gradually becomes slower. This is particularly noticable
> when running certain programs that use many images.
> 
> It is caused by a bug in libnxcompext which leaks one 768-byte
> allocation each time an image is created having <= 256 unique colours
> and with Png compression enabled.
> 

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Nice catch & patch , Mario! :-)
Maybe you could send it to NoMachine as well?

/Terje