[Uml-devel] When can the workaround patch for the Qt-Bug be applied?

[Oliver Kellogg]

A big THANKS to Achim for his detective work!

-- Oliver


On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 06:37, Achim Spangler wrote:
> Hi,
> I sent some days ago a very small patch ( netto 2 lines + 2 lines debug msg ) 
> for a very important Qt-Bug.
> 
> Please apply this as soon as possible, as there might be other users with also 
> a lot of diagrams, where the Qt-Bug causes a X11 memory usage factor of more 
> than 10 "TEN TIMES"!!!!
> -> They get very frustrated, if they don't know how to avoid this problem.
> 
> This means:
> My project without patch: > 600MB X11 Pixmap Resources
> 
> My project with patch: ~20MB X11 Pixmap Resources
> 
> -> Factor 30
> 
> 
> This Qt-Bug causes probably also with less diagrams some remarkable memory 
> overhead, which was just not detected yet with smaller projects.
> 
> Bye,
> Achim
> 
> P.S.: Patch added in case my last email got lost