Re: How to find a cause of memory leak in MS Internet Explorer?
"Moran Ben-David" <[email protected]> Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:39:11 -0500
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--gPTO4o3cxalil6QND7D0Teo0D32YU4HIJzkq8FJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://www.outofhanwell.com/ieleak/index.php?title=Main_Page On Nov 27, 2007 9:58 AM, Dimitry Golubovsky <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > I have a web page which contains some machine-generated (from Haskell > for the curious) Javascript. This page displays an entry field, and > each time a number is typed, and Enter is pressed, the number is > converted to roman and printed above along with the time it took to > convert it. This is my "canonical" test program of the Haskell > converter. > > The page is at http://www.golubovsky.org/repos/wsptest/EchoM.html > Haskell source if anybody is interested is > http://www.golubovsky.org/repos/wsptest/EchoM.hs > > It works fine in Firefox, but leaks memory terribly in MSIE. I am > trying to find out the reason: where is that circular reference that > prevents objects from being GC'd. > > Is there any free (not necessary open-source) tool specifically for > MSIE to inspect Javascript memory allocation and detect such circular > refs? One I saw, "Memory Validator", does not have free version. > Anything else? > > Thanks. > > -- > Dimitry Golubovsky > > Anywhere on the Web > -- Moran Ben-David CTO Placebase t. 213.785.1029 [email protected] http://www.placebase.com --gPTO4o3cxalil6QND7D0Teo0D32YU4HIJzkq8FJ Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> </head> <body style="background-color: #ffffff;"> <!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlStartT|**|-~--> <div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="width:655px; position:relative;"> <div id="ygrp-msg" style="width: 490px; padding: 0 15px 0 0; float:left; z-index:1;"> <!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlEndT|**|-~--> <div id="ygrp-text"> <p><a href="http://www.outofhanwell.com/ieleak/index.php?title=Main_Page">http://www.outofhan<wbr>well.com/<wbr>ieleak/index.<wbr>php?title=<wbr>Main_Page</a><br> <br> On Nov 27, 2007 9:58 AM, Dimitry Golubovsky <<a href="mailto:golubovsky%40gmail.com">golubovsky@gmail.<wbr>com</a>> wrote:<br> ><br> ><br> ><br> ><br> ><br> ><br> > Hi,<br> ><br> > I have a web page which contains some machine-generated (from Haskell<br> > for the curious) Javascript. This page displays an entry field, and<br> > each time a number is typed, and Enter is pressed, the number is<br> > converted to roman and printed above along with the time it took to<br> > convert it. This is my "canonical" test program of the Haskell<br> > converter.<br> ><br> > The page is at <a href="http://www.golubovsky.org/repos/wsptest/EchoM.html">http://www.golubovs<wbr>ky.org/repos/<wbr>wsptest/EchoM.<wbr>html</a><br> > Haskell source if anybody is interested is<br> > <a href="http://www.golubovsky.org/repos/wsptest/EchoM.hs">http://www.golubovs<wbr>ky.org/repos/<wbr>wsptest/EchoM.<wbr>hs</a><br> ><br> > It works fine in Firefox, but leaks memory terribly in MSIE. I am<br> > trying to find out the reason: where is that circular reference that<br> > prevents objects from being GC'd.<br> ><br> > Is there any free (not necessary open-source) tool specifically for<br> > MSIE to inspect Javascript memory allocation and detect such circular<br> > refs? One I saw, "Memory Validator", does not have free version.<br> > Anything else?<br> ><br> > Thanks.<br> ><br> > --<br> > Dimitry Golubovsky<br> ><br> > Anywhere on the Web<br> > <br> <br> -- <br> Moran Ben-David<br> CTO<br> Placebase<br> t. 213.785.1029<br> <a href="mailto:moran%40placebase.com">moran@placebase.<wbr>com</a><br> <a href="http://www.placebase.com">http://www.placebas<wbr>e.com</a><br> </p> </div> <!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlStart|**|-~--> <span width="1" style="color: white;">__._,_.___</span> <!-- Start the section with Message In topic --> <div id="ygrp-actbar"> <span class="left"> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wdf-dom/message/5623;_ylc=X3oDMTM0djhmNjMyBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzI1NjQ1NjMEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDE2MDYxBG1zZ0lkAzU2MjQEc2VjA2Z0cgRzbGsDdnRwYwRzdGltZQMxMTk2MTkyMzU0BHRwY0lkAzU2MjM-"> Messages in this topic </a> (<span class="bld">0</span>) </span> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wdf-dom/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJwNXQ3cWowBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzI1NjQ1NjMEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDE2MDYxBG1zZ0lkAzU2MjQEc2VjA2Z0cgRzbGsDcnBseQRzdGltZQMxMTk2MTkyMzU0?act=reply&messageNum=5624"> <span class="bld"> Reply </span> (via web post) </a> | <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wdf-dom/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJlbWp2dDFjBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzI1NjQ1NjMEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDE2MDYxBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA250cGMEc3RpbWUDMTE5NjE5MjM1NA--" class="bld"> Start a new topic </a> </div> <!------- Start Nav Bar ------> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <div id="ygrp-vitnav"> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wdf-dom/messages;_ylc=X3oDMTJlOG91YTlsBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzI1NjQ1NjMEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDE2MDYxBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA21zZ3MEc3RpbWUDMTE5NjE5MjM1NA--">Messages</a> </div> <!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| --> <div id="ygrp-grft"> </div> <!-- yahoo logo --> <!-- |**|begin egp html banner|**| --> <div id="ygrp-ft"> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTJkcTZlc2I1BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzI1NjQ1NjMEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDE2MDYxBHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA2dmcARzdGltZQMxMTk2MTkyMzU0"> <img src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/yg/img/logo/ma_grp_160.gif" height="15" width="106" border="0" alt="Yahoo! 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