[webkit-qt] memory leak on wave.google.com?

Benjamin Poulain benjamin.poulain at nokia.com
Fri Mar 26 01:25:10 PDT 2010


ext Zoltan Herczeg wrote:
> might be a problem with the garbage collector (GC). Recently I helped a
> guy, who experienced heavy leaking on linux-64 with QtWebKit. It turned
> out later that the GC cannot detect unreferenced objects, and mmaping new
> pages again and again (~512k for each page). Sometimes the same thing
> happens on linux-32 as well: he said 1 out of 10 times he saw the same
> memory growing.

We see a memory problem when benchmarking as well. The benchmarks ends 
up using almost 1Gb of memory after loading 50 pages.

Zoltan, could you investigate this issue before the next release?

cheers,
Benjamin


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