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Ticket #121 (closed bug: fixed)

Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 2 years ago

Excessive memory usage

Reported by: yeroc Assigned to:
Priority: major Milestone: 2.0 Release
Component: general Version: 1.0
Keywords: Cc:
State:

Description

When using OpenLayers v1.0 inside Firefox v1.0.8 running under RHEL4 I'm finding that memory usage keeps growing and isn't recovered until the window/tab containing openlayers is closed. After a particularly long session of using openlayers Firefox was using more than 1GB of memory. I'm guessing Firefox isn't able to garbage collect the image tiles that are being dynamically created? This is a pretty serious memory leak depending on the usage pattern of users.

It may well be that fixing ticket #92 will also resolve this issue.

Change History

08/16/06 00:27:51 changed by crschmidt

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.

In testing this now, I see no increases in memory in the way that we used to in the past. If we still see this after 2.0, please reopen the ticket and we can look into it further, but I think that fixing #92 has helped tremendously in this regard.

I spent about 10 minutes moving around a map, and firefox's memory size decreased slightly over that time, rather than increasing at all, so I think I'm willing to call this closed.

08/16/06 00:56:11 changed by euzuro

  • milestone set to 2.0 Release.