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

Zoltan Herczeg zherczeg at inf.u-szeged.hu
Fri Mar 26 06:05:50 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?

Of course. I just need an exact scenario which shows this behaviour. Do
you have a small example for that?

Zoltan




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