Yup, sounds like you have a memory leak all right.
Here's the quintessential article:
http://www.crockford.com/javascript/memory/leak.html
That'll get you started diagnosing the problem.
-- Josh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Howie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "jQuery (English)" <jquery-en@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:01 AM
Subject: [jQuery] Memory Leak?
Hi,
I don't really know if this is a jQuery issue or a Firefox issue... I
have an internal status page that polls a monitoring system every few
seconds to fetch a JSON[0] document with details of current network
status. I use that to populate a <ul>, having first call .empty() on
it.
Overnight, my FF process has grown to 1.5GB!
Is there something I need to do or avoid doing to stop this? The page
is reloaded (using meta refresh) every 5 minutes, so whatever it is
survives across page reloads.
Can anyone recommend any article or guidance to avoid this type of
problem? Googling seems to only turn up things for browser end-users.
Thanks in advance,
Howie
[0] actually, not quite, thanks to the clunky scripting language in
the monitoring system, so I tweak it afterwards.
