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Wes Hardaker writes:
> 
> Jens Lautenbacher <jtl@tkm.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de> writes:
> 
> |> I hope I'll get my fingers on Wes' code soon, so I can find some time
> |> (maybe) for doing a little more than bugfixing...
> 
> Well, its pretty much ready to go.  I'm just trying to figure out why
> I'm gaining memory.  It looks like XEmacs keeps a cache of all the
> glyphs you ever make, thus increasing the memory size of the
> application by leaps and bounds if you turn this on while running
> gnus.  I can't figure out anyway to kill created glyphs.  Ideas?

  Are you using the relocating allocation?  If not, no memory is ever freed
back to the OS, and glyphs take up space like anything else.

  Make sure you are dropping all pointers to the created glyphs, or XEmacs
won't GC them and colors/ximages won't be unallocated either.  Bad bad bad. :)

-Bill P.