Comments on: Screencast on Diagnosing Memory Leaks in IE

By: Knowlesys

Knowlesys — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:49:24 +0000

IE has memory leak since 2003.
If you use IE to visit webiste : http://www.google.com,http://www.msn.com, http://www.knowleys.com for several times, it will eat more than 30M to 80M Virtual memory.

By: Useful sites to diagnose memory leaks in IE7 » MSBLOG

Useful sites to diagnose memory leaks in IE7 » MSBLOG — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 20:17:18 +0000

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By: Dave Massy's WebLog

Dave Massy's WebLog — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 19:43:32 +0000

Memory Loss

Some useful stuff if you find yourself losing memory in IE.

On http://www.Ajaxian.com about diagnosing…

By: Jason Haley

Jason Haley — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 11:34:47 +0000

Interesting Finds

By: Scriptorama » Javascript memory-leaks in MSIE

Scriptorama » Javascript memory-leaks in MSIE — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 07:38:45 +0000

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By: Scott Schiller

Scott Schiller — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 22:02:01 +0000

Patrick: This is true, you get a much more accurate measurement with PE. I’ve noticed the effect of minimizing the active IE window also in regards to memory. Either way, you can tell that memory usage is going consistently up with refreshes under either method when leaks are present.

By: Patrick Fitzgerald

Patrick Fitzgerald — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 20:24:45 +0000

@Scott: I don’t trust windows task manager because it shows viritual memory used – for example, try collapsing your IE window and watch the amount of memory drop. Process explorer is free and has a lot more features, plus it shows the amount of private memory used.

By: Scott Schiller

Scott Schiller — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 20:14:36 +0000

What I do usually is just watch the iexplore.exe process in Task Manager, as you can see IE using increasing amounts of memory there after reloading as well. (A “fresh” window might start at 16 MB and can fluctuate slightly, but will increase if leaks are present.) Event handlers creating circular references are typically the most common cause, but not the only source, of leaks.