Re: [Wesnoth-dev] issues document

[David White]

Philippe Plantier wrote:

> ott wrote:
>
> > 13981: the game uses lots of memory
> >
> > There may be some memory leaks in the code.  However, we have not been
> > able to find any.  The game does use lots of memory, since it keeps
> > track of lots of data about the units in each scenario.  If the game
> > uses too much memory, try saving, quitting and restarting the game and
> > loading your saved game.  If you do find a memory leak, please notify
> > the developers.
>
>
> I did not found proof of any memory leak when running the game under 
> valgrind's massif.

I haven't found any memory leaks in the code for a long time either 
(recently I did fix a bug where an excessive amount of memory was being 
used unnecessarily, but that is resolved).

I think we should change the above text to say that minimizing memory 
consumption wasn't a big concern when developing Wesnoth. We also might 
want to mention some numbers.

I think that a big part of the issue is that many people might not 
understand that if you free memory in the application, the resident 
program size as reported by tools such as top or the Windows task 
manager doesn't typically go down.

David