See my presentation on memory management and garbage collection on my blog.
GC normally does not run on removal/deallocation. It only runs on new allocations. Don, can you reference a bug so I can see what you're talking about and whether someone is looking into it? Alex Harui Flex SDK Developer Adobe Systems Inc.<http://www.adobe.com/> Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Nirav Gosalia Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 1:46 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Browser Memory Consumption not coming down even after remove child I faced the problem in Flash Player 9 as well. I think the issue is that the garbage collection of non referenced entities is not happening due to which my browser memory footprint goes on icreasing making the app very sluggish and eventually hang. When I say 'hang' I mean popups stop opening, traversing among fields in a form using the tab key does not work etc. Also the fact that those non referenced objects get GC'd using the Run Garbage Collector button in flex profiler shows that my code does not have any other reference to those objects ! Can you suggest me the approach that I should follow as I dont know What Next ? :-( --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, "Don Kerr" <fusionp...@...> wrote: > > See my earlier posting about Flash 10 memory issues and crashing IE. There are many > bugs reported related to this on Adobe's bug tracking. > > Does your app just hang, or in some cases does it crash IE? > > Did your app work better/ok using Flash 9? Mine did not have any memory issues under > Flash 9, but they do with Flash 10. > > It may or may not be your code. It may be a this known issue with Flash 10. If it turns out > to be Flex code related...please let us know. So far, I've not seen any coding solutions > proposed to fix memory/crash issues. I'm looking for help too. > > Maybe this list will help us both. I wish I had the answer for both of us. > > Don > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, > "Nirav Gosalia" <nirav_290@> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > We have developed large applications like CRM typically having > > several tabs. > > > > We allow the user to travere a list of names in a tree and on his > > choice we add tabs to the tab navigator. These tabs can be closed by > > the user using a close button on the tab. > > > > Issue: As the user opens new tabs the browser consumes more and more > > memory(> 250MB). When tabs are closed we explicitly use removeChildAt > > () method to remove them from the tab navigator. However browser > > memory consumption does not decrease. > > > > In Flex profiler the closed tabs get garbage collected when I click > > on the 'Run Garbage Collector' button which proves that there are no > > references to the closed tabs and they are perfect candidates for GC. > > > > Why does the browser memory consumption not go down ? > > The application gets sluggish and eventually hangs ? > > > > We are not in a position to do a production release till we get > > around this issue ? > > > > I am using IE7 and flash player 10 > > > > Please help ! > > >
