IE memory leak

[Rostislav Hristov]

Hi guys,

yesterday I was warned about a memory leak issue with SWFAddress and
so far it seems that the problem is caused by SWFObject 2.

For more info you can follow this thread:
https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=2022366&forum_id=630934

I think I'm able to reproduce the problem with this test case:
http://www.swffix.org/swfobject/testsuite/test_dynamic_com.html

Here with every refresh the IE memory increases with about 2
megabytes. With heavy websites it's probably much more.

Best,
Rostislav

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[Bobby]

Hi Rotislav, I will look into it.

[Getify Solutions, Inc.]

I can confirm the same thing happens for me with that test page with IE7 on
a winxp sp2 machine. I see it climb by ~2MB with each page refresh.

--Kyle

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From: "Rostislav Hristov" <rostisla...@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 3:38 AM
To: <swfo...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: IE memory leak

[Getify Solutions, Inc.]

Is there a bug reported against this one? I've been able to confirm that a
simple test page I have has memory leaks when the swf is included via
swfobject 2 (embedswf), but not when the same swf on the same page is
included via some other method, such as manually in the HTML or via Adobe's
(really poorly done) AC_RunActiveContent.js method.

Do we need to officially file a bug about this memory leak issue?

--Kyle

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From: "Bobby" <bobbyvan...@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 4:09 AM
To: "SWFObject" <swfo...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: IE memory leak

[Bobby]

http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/issues/detail?id=84

[Bobby]

I managed to solve all memory leak issues. A description of the
different issues and the resolution can be found in issue report 84:
http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/issues/detail?id=84&can=1

Please note that currently we are working on SWFObject 2.1, which will
address a series of issues - of which this issue is the biggest one,
all others are relatively small -, and will contain a couple of
enhancements. We hope to release this new version as soon as possible,
no dates are planned yet.

[jrotondo]

I've just updated to swfobject 2.1 rc1 and I still experience memory
leaks in IE7. I have a page with a 3MBFlash file, and if I load the
page and just let it sit there, the memory usage keeps slowly climbing
and climbing. After 5 minutes on the page, I've used up 344,476K of my
available memory, and it keeps climbing. Is there anything I can do to
help find the problem?

Thanks,
J



On May 4, 4:13 pm, Bobby <bobbyvandersl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I managed to solve allmemoryleakissues. A description of the

[Aran Rhee]

Does this happen on all swf files, or just your specific one? Does the
memory leak happen with standard object/embed? I would simplify the page /
file as much as possible and see if it still occurs. If not, then it is
probably something within your specific swf.

3Mb is pretty big - Do you have video or other looping media which might be
requesting more and more ram without being GC'ed (garbage collected) ?
Remember Flash player will only release something from memory if there are
NO references to it any more (ie if you hold a variable reference to a MC,
even if you remove the MC from the stage, it will still be in memory until
you delete the variable as well)

Aran

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