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Why does X-Chat leak so much memory?

April 26, 2017leak memory x-chat

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Why does X-Chat leak so much memory?

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The simple answer is, it doesn’t! There are some GTK+ pixmap based themes around that leak a lot of memory. Please try using a different theme and see if that resolves the problem. X-Chat itself only allocates about 40kb of memory through malloc()!