Creating and destroying a Gtk::Window in a loop loses 3MB on each iteration as demonstrated by this tiny program. Since creating windows is a fundamental requirement in our application, this is depleting all of memory and swap, and finally crashing.




#include <gtkmm.h>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;


class Win : public Gtk::Window
{
public:
	Win()
	{
		set_size_request(1024, 768);
		realize();
	}

	~Win()
	{
		cerr << "Destroying window" << endl;
	}
};



int
main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
	Gtk::Main App(argc, argv);			// Initialize GTK+

	while (true) {
		Win* w = new Win;
		if (Gtk::Main::events_pending())
			Gtk::Main::iteration();
		::sleep(2);
		delete w;
	}

	exit (0);
}