ngView Major Memory Leak

[Michael Francis]

I'm noticing a major memory leak when using ngView.  You can actually see it happening on the angular api. If you go there and switch back and forth between two pages you'll noticed that memory keeps going up and the page will eventually crash.

[Scott Elcomb]

I'm seeing the same. A quick search turned up
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16947957/how-does-angularjs-handle-memory-management-with-ngview>
so I've added a call to $templateCache.removeAll() in my
$routeChangeStart handler. That seemed to help a little, but didn't
completely fix it.

Checking now if pitfall #2 from
<http://thenittygritty.co/angularjs-pitfalls-using-scopes> is the
culprit in my app, I'd also appreciate any further advice on this
topic.

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[Michael Francis]

That was actually my stack overflow question. I wanted to ask it before I went and claimed there was a memory leak.

I did the same thing with the $templateCache. And noticed the same thing. Drastically improved but did not eliminate the issue.

I was trying to see where exactly the templates were being stashed to see if it kept adding it to the cache even though the template was already cached.

I hope to look into this more over the weekend. This could be a stopper issue for any large scale application.

[Andy Joslin]

Are you sure you don't have some un-cleaned-up $scope-stuff happening in your controllers?

[mark prades]

just checked the API docs , indeed , there is a major issue here .

[Stephane Le Dorze]

Can you point out the relevant doc please?

Thanks

[mark prades]

go to the api docs and toggle between 2 links in the right menu : http://docs.angularjs.org/api/

fire the dev tools , timeline , record and the memory usage keeps on growing ( i got up to 300 meg ... )

BUT  , maybe it has nothing to do with AngularJS , it could  be the disqus widget that is leaky , i need to look into that.

[Pawel Kozlowski]

Hi!

On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 10:16 PM, mark prades <parais...@gmail.com> wrote:
> just checked the API docs , indeed , there is a major issue here .

Yes, there was a memory leak in the documentation site (not in the
framework itself).
It was fixed via
https://github.com/angular/angular.js/commit/6c663154943e4c0c33c19026a7b500302bda29d4

Cheers,
Pawel


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