[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ management plugin memory usage in Chrome

Wed Jan 19 14:06:30 GMT 2011

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 14:49, Jon Rowland <jon.rowland at isam.com> wrote:
> Thanks - it's no problem for me, but I thought it worth reporting.
>
> I also don't have the required skills/knowledge to probe any deeper unfortunately...
>
> On 17/01/11 08:56, Jon Rowland wrote:
>> I left a test app running over the weekend which publishes 1000 msg/sec
>> to a broker. I also left the management plugin page open on the Channels
>> tab running in Chrome.
>>
>> I happened to notice that Chrome was using an enormous amount of memory
>> - over 1GB and very slowly increasing. As soon as I navigated to another
>> page outside of the management console, without restarting the browser,
>> the memory was released.
>>
>> No idea if this is 'bug' or 'feature' but thought you may be interested.

Funny thing. I can indeed confirm that Chrome grows insanely. But I
can't reproduce
it on firefox. Can you please try Firefox and see if it also misbehaves?

Cheers,
   Marek

> Hi Jon. I'm sure this is a bug, I'm just not sure if it's in
> rabbitmq-management or in Chrome :(
>
> You're not supposed to be able to do anything to leak memory in
> JavaScript + HTML. In old browsers you're supposed to avoid circular
> references between DOM elements and closures, and AFAICS we do that. So
> if there is some bugfix or workaround I'm not sure how to find it.
>
> At the moment the best advice I can give is to decrease the refresh
> frequency if this is a problem...
>
> Cheers, Simon
>
> --
> Simon MacMullen
> Staff Engineer, RabbitMQ
> SpringSource, a division of VMware
>
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