Thank you, that would certainly explain it as a couple of the top-level windows get dragged to full-screen. And I've been destroy-ing those regularly. Sometimes I automate the whole sequence for many a file so that destroy might happen a hundred times. A couple of times I thought I'd crashed the OS...with 4GB...but now that I recall it seems as if only X-windows had locked. So it's the GUI not the OS which crashed, I guess.

This withdraw and re-configure business does sound quite a pain to deal with...ex-post-facto...as now I must do. But I'll start chipping away at it.

Thank you again,

Gan

In reply to Re^4: Memory leak by aplonis
in thread Memory leak by aplonis

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