[webkit-help] Possible memory leak or cache problem
Patrick Mueller
pmuellr at muellerware.org
Mon Oct 5 06:06:42 PDT 2009
john.kjellberg at power.alstom.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wonder if some of you could help me with this. The following request
> increases memory usage on each request:
>
> <html>
> <body>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> var xmlHttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
>
> var i = 0;
> function test() {
> xmlHttp.open("GET","mem_test.htm?" + (i++), false);
> xmlHttp.send(null);
> setTimeout(test,10);
> }
>
> test();
> </script>
> Test
> </body>
> </html>
> ...
(posting again, first response didn't seem to go through)
I was able to reproduce this, I think, on Mac. I was able to defeat the
memory growth by adding a
delete xmlHttp;
after the xmlHttp.send(null);
--
Patrick Mueller - http://muellerware.org
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