Hi Ryan, I tested it on IE7, Chrome, Firefox3, Safari (Mac). They all perform in consistent manner, Safari is less greedy, IE & FF are the most hungry ones.
But as I said before, I can't see this footprint shrink when I minimise browsers. I even set this secret variable for FF - trim_on_minimise - no effect. How come? Cheers, Dmitri. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Ryan Graham" <ryan.gra...@...> wrote: > > > Is this in all browsers? I know IE 6 (maybe even 7?) has issues with > memory management. I consistently see memory leak-like behavior with IE > 6, for example: > > > > Start debug session for basic app - IE reports 60+ MB memory usage with > a value that steadily climbs as I use the app. > > Minimize the browser, then bring it back to view - IE memory usage drops > to ~13 MB. > > Use the app for a few more minutes, memory footprint grows in size a few > MB. > > Minimize, then restore - IE footprint back down to ~13 MB or so. > > > > I don't see the same behavior in FF, which is good. The issue might be > with memory management within that particular browser, and not the Flash > Player. > > > > HTH, > > Ryan > > > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On > Behalf Of Dmitri Girski > Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 11:33 PM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [flexcoders] Memory consumption by the browser > > > > Hi everybody, > > I am trying to solve the problem when my application consumes a lot of > memory. > When application starts in the browser, Windows/Mac reports the size > of browser process around 150Mb. > Then, if you start opening/closing the same popup window (which is > actually being cached by application), the browser starts to grow. > Each appearance of popup consumes around 1.5Mb [sic!] (the consumer is > childConstraintInfo, around 256 instances) > When you close the pop up, memory sometimes goes down, but never to > the original value. Never ever. At least 100-200kb more at a time. > > OK, when I use a profiler, it shows that application consumes 42Mb. > Profiler shows no leaks, even if the number of instances are growing, > when I click on GarbageCollector icon it always goes to the original > figures, including childConstraintInfo instances. Total Memory stays > at 42Mb mark. Good. > But the problem is that browser's footprint is still growing. After a > couple of hours of work with application it grows to 500-600Mb. > > In profiler everything looks perfect. In reality - 600Mb app on 1Gb > system makes it dead. > > The question is, what makes browser to be so memory hungry? Why it > consumes more & more memory without any attempt to release it? > > The simplest action with panel instance addPopUp/removePopUp consumes > 1.5Mb of memory - I don't believe it. Well, the panels has 3 states > and complex layout with ~100 elements. But what makes it so different > to the "Hello, World" popup, which seems to be right? > > Thank you for any thought in advance. > > Regards, > Dmitri. > > > > > > > > This message is private and confidential. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. >