memory issue

Poster: jamserra
Dated: Thursday March 30 2006 - 18:16:08 BST

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?

Poster: John
Dated: Thursday March 30 2006 - 19:52:42 BST

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

Poster: jamserra
Dated: Thursday March 30 2006 - 20:05:06 BST

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.

Poster: John
Dated: Thursday March 30 2006 - 22:49:14 BST

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.

Poster: jamserra
Dated: Thursday March 30 2006 - 23:10:41 BST

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.

Poster: Andy
Dated: Monday April 10 2006 - 15:14:31 BST

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