PR# 10935 Creating new window and closing it increases estudio and X server memory usage

Click on Create New Window button in estudio, then immediately
close the new window.  After about 40 repetitions of this
sequence, size of ec goes from 100 MB to 200 MB (doubles)
and size of Xsun (Sun's X server process) goes from
240 MB to 550 MB (more than doubles).  Either there is a 
serious memory leak or you're accidentally or intentionally
holding onto the closed windows.  Whatever the explanation,
it is very bad from a user's point of view.

Yes, the problem still seems to be there.  I tried using the GTK+2.10 since
I think that version has fewer leaks of its own than GTK+2.4.  Here are the
results.  Iterations refers to the number of open window then close window
operations.

Iterations     Heap in MB

0                      97
10                    111
20                    127
30                    136
40                    149
50                    153
60                    162
70                    166
80                    166
90                    171
100                   175

Memory growth seemed to slow down after awhile (last 40 iterations increased
heap size by 13 MB, or about 300 KB per window open/close operation).

Using memory analyzer seems to show an increase of around 200 of the following
types of objects for a window open/close sequence:

TUPLE [EV_FONT_IMP]
EV_FONT_IMP
PROCEDURE [EV_FONT_IMP, TUPLE [STRING_32]]
EV_FONT
EV_ACTIVE_LIST [STRING_32]
SPECIAL [STRING_32]

The deltas for these always 
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Do we still have the problem?

In build 62488, there is much less leaking but it is still
present.  Build 62110 leaked about 2.5 MB per window created
and closed.  Build 62488 leaks about 130 - 200 KB per main
development window created and closed.  So it is an order of
magnitude better but still not completely fixed.  I suggest
use of Solaris Modular Debugger (mdb) as documented in another
report to find where the memory that is still held at exit
was allocated from.  Or maybe you have other tools you can
use on other platforms.  I'm pretty sure part of this is
related to GTK and might even be due to underlying GTK bugs
(they seem to have a lot of memory leaks in that code), which
might not be easy to work around.

There was indeed a memory leak in version 62110. Can you check the next release as there are no more Eiffel leaks now?