[PyKDE] memleak with QMovie

[Phil Thompson]

On Sunday 18 September 2005 9:04 am, Russell Valentine wrote:
> I've been seeing a mem leak in my PyKDE application for several months.
> I figured it was because I upgraded KDE to 3.4 or something because I
> saw it around that time. I finally made my self try to figure out where
> the leak was coming from and narrowed it down to QMovie.
>
> Attached is a minimal program where I see the leak happening it doesn't
> require PyKDE only PyQT. Slowly the memory usage of the application goes
> up, when I comment the QMovie line there is no memory leak. I hadn't
> tried a C++ version of it so I don't know where the heart of the problem
> lies. I am running Gentoo with the latest sip, and pyqt snapshots (qt
> 3.3.4). I don't think it is my setup because it does the same on my
> Debian box and it has been doing it for a while which include previous
> versions of sip and pyqt.
>
> Thanks for any help resolving this issue.

Difficult to see how this would be a PyQt problem. I'd try a C++ version and 
see if the problem is still there.

Phil