TabPanel Memory Issue

2009-04-16 Thread kk
Hi, I have a gwt-ext tab panel that dynamically creates tabs. These tabs can contain multiple gwt-ext widgets. When I try to close these tabs, I notice that the memory indicated via the task manager of Internet explorer does not decrease. My question is: Should/Would IE7 free up the memory when

RE: TabPanel Memory Issue

2009-04-16 Thread Adam Fredericks
IE7 has a dead beat garbage collector. The memory will not be reclaimed when you destroy components. When you create an object, IE allocates memory on the local machine to run it - destroying the object will not reclaim that lost memory. No matter what you do, IE will not reclaim the memory