Thanks - yes turned out to be that. Much appreciated! On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:
> Are you using SWFObject? > http://groups.google.com/group/swfobject/browse_thread/thread/d94bc23037ddc714 > > > > Alex Harui > > Flex SDK Developer > > Adobe Systems Inc. <http://www.adobe.com/> > > Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > > > > *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On > Behalf Of *Ashish Verma > *Sent:* Thursday, February 26, 2009 5:27 AM > *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Flex & RAM memory use - (probably a question > for the player engineers?) > > > > For the first problem I don't have clue but for second problem I can say > that it's due to weird behaviour of Flash Garbage Collector. > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:48 PM, nwebb <neilw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > we're having 2 issues with memory in Flex: > > 1) Part way through our Flex application we open an external HTML page (3rd > party page). The user selects items from this page and then closes the page > & the control is then returned to the Flex application. This 3rd party page > is heavy in terms of memory, and that memory is never getting released once > the page is closed. Is it at all possible that Flex is holding on to a > handle to that page and if so is there any way to release it, or is this > definitely not a Flex problem, and more a browser issues or issue with the > external page as I expect? > > 2) The Flex app is one part of a much larger website. When we proceed past > the Flex app (ie the user proceeds to a page where the app isn't embedded), > again much of the memory Flex was using doesn't seem to be getting released. > A browser issue? > > Needless to say IE seems to be much more of a memory hog, but we've been > looking at this in both IE and FireFox. > > Any help much appreciated. > > Cheers, > Neil > > > > > > > > >
