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> Run the two commands below and your ROOT will consume memory.
> It seems there is bug with memory management in TCanvas::Update().
>
> root [0] TCanvas *c = new TCanvas("c","c",100,100);
> root [1] while(1) c->Update();
Thats a bug in XFree86, see ROOT release notes:
- Observed a memory leak in XCopyArea() on XFree86 3.3.x.x of +/- 90
bytes.
Bug report has been submitted to xfree86.org. This leak shows up, a.o.,
in
TCanvas::Update(). It is independent of the canvas size.
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Cheers
Otto
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