We developed and application in flex which can show graphs with nodes and edges. the node is represented by an SVG image. We are seeing that the browser memory consumption for the application with a graph that has 2000 nodes goes to 500MB and the browser becomes un-responsive. when the graph with 10 nodes is displayed then the memory consumed is not reclaimed back. We tried System.gc() in the code to force run the garbage collector and it didn't reclaim. Due to which the browser becomes un-responsive.
Another interesting thing is I ran the Flex profiler thought the application The Flex profiler shows the memory consumption as 21,15 1K which is ~21MB where as the actual Browser consumption is 456,568K Which is ~457MB Application Consumption ~21MB (Shown by profiler) Flash Player Shows a memory consumption of ~250MB Total Browser Consumption was ~457MB The Question is why does flash player consume ~250MB and browser consules ~457Mb when the application objects consume only ~21MB. PS: Browser is running only this flex application How can I reclaim all the memory that the Browser is showing in excess? Is that a memory leak? How can I see memory leaks in profiler? For knowing what kind of graph it is please visit http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yfilesflex_about.html Thanks, Srikanth
