[webkit-dev] caching /memory leak... browsing images

zaheer ahmad zaheer.mot at gmail.com
Mon Mar 16 02:52:45 PDT 2009


Webkit has a default cache of 8 Mb (WebCore/Loader/Cache.cpp) and your data
suggests it is using with in that limit. And it is a fraction of 150Mb you
have mentioned, please check where the other memory is going.

thanks,
Zaheer
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Purushottam Sholapur <
purushottam.sholapur at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am using webkit on davinci platform, with QT. We have 150MB of RAM,
> If I use browser for 15-20 minutes. Entire memory is exhausted. There is no
> other
> application running. This is happening more with webpages having bigger
> images. I am
> browsing http://www.images.google.com
>
> I tried with QtLauncher and Qt demo/browser, behavior is same.
> I tried with latest nightly webkit build also. (on 9th Mar '09), same
> result.
> Not sure where it is caching or leaking.
>
> Tried dumping Cache statistics periodically using.
>     Cache * cp = cache();
>     cp->dumpStats();
>
> It initially prints like this ....
>             Count       Size        LiveSize    DecodedSize PurgeableSize
> PurgedSize
> ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- -----------
> -----------
> Images                3      210215      210215      186976
> 0           0
> CSS                   0           0           0           0
> 0           0
> JavaScript            1        2285        2285           0
> 0           0
> Fonts                 0           0           0           0
> 0           0
> ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- -----------
> -----------
> Later ....
>             Count       Size        LiveSize    DecodedSize PurgeableSize
> PurgedSize
> ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- -----------
> -----------
> Images               40     3968623     3891850     3729336
> 0           0
> CSS                   2       17409       17409           0
> 0           0
> JavaScript            4      651566      649281      432854
> 0           0
> Fonts                 0           0           0           0
> 0           0
> ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- -----------
> -----------
>
> Images, CSS, JavaScript count never reduces. Are they cached..?
>
> Is it same as that of this ...
> http://www.nabble.com/JavaScript-memory-management-question-to20842278.html#a20842278
>
>
> Please suggest to solve this,
>
> regards
> Purush
>
>
>
>
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