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Comment # 24 on bug 7833 from Anders Broman

(In reply to comment #23)
> (In reply to comment #22)
> > You coud try a development build with GTK3 to see if that works better.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion Anders. I may try that later, but in the short
> term I will just move my Wireshark work to the W7 system. That will mean
> spending a few hundred dollars to upgrade some of my other apps to 64-bit,
> but it also gets me going immediately.
> 
> Given that it appears to be (maybe) unique to the HD 4870 display adapter,
> do you still recommend opening a new bug report?
> 
> Roger

As it appers to be a GTK bug there isn't much we can do about it, if you want
to persue it with the GTK guys, that's fine.

Might be related to this bug:
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8281

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665013. mentioned there seems to be
fixed in
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/commit/?id=ba8c4bb049b36b3707c2c8f22c5c66b497e2d2cf


http://www.mail-archive.com/deluge-dev@googlegroups.com/msg05448.html
Says:
>Comment:
>
> Just to follow up that there are
> [https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685959 bugzilla reports] for
> gtk memory leaks in windows and it looks as though the major issues are
> fixed in gtk 2.24.14 but we cannot package this until a windows gtk/pygtk
> build is available.

We do have 2.24.14... 2.24.20 is available, no idea if anything is fixed there.

For reference the GTK change logs:
Overview of Changes from GTK+ 2.24.14 to 2.24.15
================================================ 
* Bug fixes: 
   626499 GtkClipboard unnotified on change of OS X pasteboard owner 
   656565 Signalify (already existing) GtkMenuShell.insert() 
   664640 CUPS authentication does not work 
   669808 fullscreen/unscreen was broken for Quartz on OS X earli... 
   674556 File chooser dialog does not save its sizes 
   679883 When printing Custom paper sizes GTK Print Dialog does ... 
   683511 spinbutton: fix xthickness bug when resizing the text a... 
   689810 Include guard optimization 
   689982 Make GChecksum more fully introspectable 
   690788 Critical in gtknotebook dnd with rgba colormap 
   692099 autogen.sh doesn't recognize automake 1.13 
   692554 entry: never use GTK_STATE_ACTIVE to paint the background 
   692810 Fails to build with the gold linker due to missing refe... Fix
scrolling in insensitive modal dialogs * Translation updates Norwegian bokmål 

Overview of Changes from GTK+ 2.24.15 to 2.24.16
================================================ 
* Bug fixes: 
   694077 Make GtkItemFactory produce GtkSeparatorMenuItems 
   645065 GtkFileChooserButton doesn't handle closing its dialog correctly
Reliably stop spinning when a GtkSpinButton is hidden 

Overview of Changes from GTK+ 2.24.16 to 2.24.17
================================================ 
* Bug fixes: 
  GtkFileChooserButton fixes: 
  - Don't emit file-set signal when the change is not the result of a user
action 
  - Don't ever use gtk_file_chooser_get_files 
  - Ensure internal consistency when clearing a model 
690247 multiple context in a immodule can't be selected 
692955 GtkIconCache fails to load non-builtin icons 
694742 Fix possible memory leak when GlobalAlloc() fails 

Overview of Changes from GTK+ 2.24.17 to 2.24.18
================================================ 
* Bug fixes: 
                  586367 In local_only mode, file chooser should return native
paths... 
                  674051 Scrolling zoom in view - incorrect image display 
                  683072 Print dialog shows cryptic status message and displays
garb... 
                  683983 Gimp crashes on exporting JPEG files (probably related
to E... 694711 write-after-free segfault in GailTreeView 
                  695003 Entry's bg active state in pixmaps-engine is broken in
15 a... 
                  695278 Avoid passing a NULL title to setTitle 
                  695312 Initial 'text' set in the non-numeric-only
GtkSpinButton au... 
                  698563 Ensure correct error reporting when CreateDIBSection
fails 
* Translation updates: Hungarian Interlingua 

Overview of Changes from GTK+ 2.24.18 to 2.24.19
================================================ 
* Bug fixes: 432386 GtkFileChooserDefault leaks memory if a shortcut... 
                  575767 Crashes when XInput device disappears 
                  694273 Patch to support NSTextInputClient in text widgets 
                  698614 GObject: prevent installing properties after init 
                 700578 Missing vertical grid lines when some columns hidden *
Translation updates: German 

Overview of Changes from GTK+ 2.24.19 to 2.24.20
================================================ 
* Backport changes from GTK+ 3 to look for rc files in system config dirs in
addition to /etc/gtk-2.0 and ~/.gtkrc. 
* Backport changes from GTK+ 3 to look for the immodules cache file in libdir.
gtk-query-immodules-2.0 gained an --update-cache option to write the output to
the correct location. 
 Note that this may require slight adjustment of distro packaging. 
* Bug fixes: 560337 GtkFileChooser hour time missing for current date files 
                  649390 CRLF text is copied to clipboard as CRCRLF on Windows 
                  698183 quartz: Text input is too slow and some keys are
broken... 
                  702455 Add support for Avahi printers to gtk 2.24.x 
* Translation updates: Polish

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