From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Anders Waldenborg <anders@0x63.nu>
Cc: 6230@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6230: 23.2; Pixmaps kept in X11 after (svg?) images no longer are used
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 13:16:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r5l6v6hg.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BF557EE.4050400@0x63.nu> (Anders Waldenborg's message of "Thu, 20 May 2010 17:40:30 +0200")
Anders Waldenborg <anders@0x63.nu> writes:
> By running the command defined by the following:
>
> (require 'cl)
> (defun aw-replace-buffer-contents-with-svg-images ()
> (interactive)
> (erase-buffer)
> (dotimes (N 200)
> (insert-image (create-image (format "<svg width=\"50\"
> height=\"50\"><rect x=\"0\" y=\"0\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"
> fill=\"#%02x%02x%02x\"/></svg>" (random 255)(random 255)(random 255))
> svg t))))
>
> the current buffer will be replaced with 200 images. Running xrestop it
> can easily be seen that 200 pixmaps are added to the X11 server every
> time the command is run.
>
> One would expect that the pixmaps were removed from X11 when they don't
> exist in any buffer any longer (which is why recipe uses erase-buffer so
> it can be run multiple times, increasing number of pixmaps every time -
> not the behaviour I expect).
>
> The pixmaps doesn't even go away when the buffer is killed.
You can run (clear-image-cache) to eliminate the image data. Emacs also
does this automatically, every hundred redisplays.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-20 17:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-20 15:40 bug#6230: 23.2; Pixmaps kept in X11 after (svg?) images no longer are used Anders Waldenborg
2010-05-20 17:16 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2010-05-20 20:07 ` Anders Waldenborg
2010-05-20 20:32 ` Chong Yidong
2010-05-21 6:37 ` Anders Waldenborg
2010-05-21 17:35 ` Chong Yidong
2010-05-21 20:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-21 20:43 ` Anders Waldenborg
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