Couple of questions about Web workers

[Methos]

Hi,

I am using web workers in the background page of my extension. I noticed a few things and wanted to clarify:

1. What is the limit on number of workers that can be spawned?

    I see that my extension starts crashing somewhere around 125 workers.

2. I spawn 100 workers. They do some work and call "self.close()" after they are finished. However, I think there memory is not reclaimed.

    If I don't spawn any workers, the extension uses around 54MB. If I spawn 100 workers, the extension keeps on using about 107MB even after all of them have terminated.

    Is there any way to release that memory?

-m