From 2bfb88d6a4b28cc8d6c8408dbf5cdfc9106fb314 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jaro Date: Sun, 14 May 2023 22:55:15 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Instruct on dealing with Typograffiti memory leak. --- TESTING.md | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/TESTING.md b/TESTING.md index c8297cf..5d35442 100644 --- a/TESTING.md +++ b/TESTING.md @@ -53,6 +53,15 @@ Prerequisites: [Typograffiti commit 1c30cf54](https://git.argonaut-constellation.org/~alcinnz/Typograffiti/tree/1c30cf5417b88c226b7dfd8cf596e09743023fd2) built from source. + - However, the `draw-shaped` executable is currently known to suffer from a + heavy memory leak. It may crash in as little as half a minute, depending + on your system resources. + + To avoid overloading your machine, consider limiting the executable's + data segment size to 1 GiB (`ulimit -Sd 1048576`), then run `draw-shaped`, + and either stop the process before inspecting the window's contents, or + screenshot the window for later inspection and terminate the process. + Steps: -- 2.30.2