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Re: Memory leaks with dashboard widgets



This problem is being addressed.  If you have a 100% reproducible case
please send a bug report to Apple, so we can assure that our fixes are
working.

Thanks,
jl

> 
> Hello!
> 
> I wonder if there any "definitive" answer to the memory leak problems
> with dashboard widgets? I have built a widget which shows this
> behaviour, but I notice that even some of the Tiger-supplied widgets
> like "Weather DashboardClient" seem to suffer from growing resident
> memory size over time. Does anyone know of problems with the
> dashboard implementation or is this a case of my own javascript code
> not behaving correctly?
> 
> If it's my own code, I wonder how I might debug this problem. I would
> imagine the JavaScript implementation to be a reference-counting
> system with lazy garbage collection. But I don't think I have any
> circular references in my code.
> In which case, is there any way to periodically force garbage
> collection? Or find out when JavaScript objects are allocated and
> then free'd?
> 
> Any hints as to how one might go about debugging this problem would
> be appreciated.
> 
> Regards, David Thorpe
> 
> 
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