Re: Memory leaking

On Dec 21, 2006, at 2:06 PM, andresgr wrote:

> I found the leak!
>
> This Netbeans profiler tool is really amazing :)
>
> Well, the fact: the memory was allocated by
>
> private void handleScriptException( Exception e, String badScript )
>
> in com.meterware.httpunit.javascript.JavaScript$JavaScriptEngine
>
> and I discovered that HttpUnit stores *all* JavaScript Exceptions in a
> private buffer, which *you* have to clear manually from time to time,
> if you don't want to loose your memory along the way :)
>
> The "buffer":
>
> private static ArrayList _errorMessages = new ArrayList();
>
> You can clear that buffer calling:
>
> HttpUnitOptions.clearScriptErrorMessages();
>
> I think this "feature" should be disabled by default or... i don't
> know, use a buffer of limited size...

Or should be tied to the web response. Thanks for finding this. It  
goes on my list of things to fix.

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