Firefox 2 has major problems with memory leaks, when many pages has been loaded. How about try running your monitor script in another browser ?
Firefox 3 was rewritten and should no longer have memory leaks. It is still in beta stage though... On Jun 12, 4:01 pm, Howie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I don't really know if this is a jQuery issue or a Firefox issue... I > have an internal status page that polls a monitoring system every few > seconds to fetch a JSON[0] document with details of current network > status. I use that to populate a <ul>, having first call .empty() on > it. > > Overnight, my FF process has grown to 1.5GB! > > Is there something I need to do or avoid doing to stop this? The page > is reloaded (using meta refresh) every 5 minutes, so whatever it is > survives across page reloads. > > Can anyone recommend any article or guidance to avoid this type of > problem? Googling seems to only turn up things for browser end-users. > > Thanks in advance, > > Howie > > [0] actually, not quite, thanks to the clunky scripting language in > the monitoring system, so I tweak it afterwards.
