memory issue

jamserra · Post by **jamserra** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:16 pm

I notice when bouncing around a site that uses the Milonic menu, that the "mem usage" and "VM size" of IE will increase on almost every page that is accessed. After about 15 minutes, the numbers can get pretty high (i.e VM size was 100k when bouncing around the Milonic site). Is there a memory leak that causes this? Or is this a javascript problem?

Post by **John** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:52 pm

Give us some info on OS, version, browser, version, etc.

jamserra · Post by **jamserra** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 8:05 pm

IE 6.0. I tried it on Windows XP and Windows 2000 and see the issue on both. Sometimes when bouncing around, the memory won't increase, but sometimes the memory will jump 4,000k after a page access. After a short time, those 4,000k jumps will add up and the VM size will be over 150,000k and the mem usage will be over 50,000k.

Post by **John** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:49 pm

Personally I haven't seen this happen (which I know doesn't help at all). However, Ruth has already contacted the boss who will take a look.

jamserra · Post by **jamserra** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 11:10 pm

Hi John,

It's easy to test: just open up IE, go to the milonic.com site, open up the Windows Task Manager (making the Virtial Memory Size column viewable), and click a bunch of the menu items. You will see the "VM Size column" and the "mem usage" go up and up. I tried this with Firefox, and the problem is much less severe - I will only see the VM size go up just a little with each page access.

Post by **Andy** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:14 pm

I just tested this and although I see the memory go up, once all menus have loaded it remains static.

I'm not seeing a leak at all using IE6 on Windows XP