[Ktechlab-devel] OUTRAGEOUS MEMORY USAGE!!!

[Richard Rondu]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Alan Grimes <agrimes at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> I just did a memcheck run on my torture test circuit (after finishing
> cleaning logicIn of linked list code, and re-writing part of Circuit so
> that it behaves the same as LogicOut). I was totally outraged by the
> results. KTECHLAB HAD LOSED FIFTEEN THOUSAND BYTES OF MEMORY!!! JEZUS
> CHRIST, PPL, THAT'S ALMOST 1/1000TH AS BAD AS EVERY OTHER KDE
> APPLICATION!!! I MEAN, IF WE WERE ONLY A MERE THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE
> BUGGIER, WE'D BE SHOWING JUST ABOUT THE SAME QUALITY OF CODE I SEE IN
> THE REST OF MY SYSTEM. =|   (KDE4 uses at least a gigabyte of ram just
> to show the flaming desktop...)
>

zsh/2 1843 % free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       2036700    1032784    1003916          0      58832     400652
-/+ buffers/cache:     573300    1463400
Swap:      1048568          0    1048568

around 600MB used here, KDE 4.3.1 on fedora 11 and a few non kde apps launched.
Minus firefox chromium qt-creator and some misc apps you can remove 120~150MB.

> Seriously though, there are a number of invalid read, and even a few
> inlvalid write bugs which really do need to be looked at. (mostly in
> destructors....
>
> Anyway, time to do some serious testing cuz I made some major changes to
> Simulator, circuitDocument and logicIn/out recently. (actually many of
> those appear to be within the STL. =0   )
>
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