QtWebKit with javascript: memory leak?

[monkazer]

Hi,

I've written a software which browses multiple websites containing javascript.
To achieve that, I'm using QWebPage with QWebSettings::JavascriptEnabled.
The problem is that over the time the ram usage is constantly increasing, until more than 1-2 gb of ram is used and then crashes.
I've written a little test snippet to demonstrate the issue.

Ram usage

• Without running the snippet: 7,7mb
• With QWebSettings::JavascriptEnabled set to false: 40mb
• With QWebSettings::JavascriptEnabled set to true: 110mb

If you put some breakpoints, you can see the ram usage increasing with each site.

Do you have any solution so that I can reduce the amount of ram used? I guess the problem is the page/frame isn't deleted because some javascript code is executed (maybe?). If so, any way to force the javascript to stop, once the page is loaded? Or perhaps a way to force the page to delete all its content?

QWebPage page;
    page.settings()->setAttribute(QWebSettings::JavascriptEnabled, true);
 
    QEventLoop loop;
    connect(&page, SIGNAL(loadFinished(bool)), &loop, SLOT(quit()));
 
    for (int i=0; i<2; i++) {
        page.mainFrame()->load(QUrl("http://www.youtube.com"));
        loop.exec();
 
        page.mainFrame()->load(QUrl("http://www.youtube.com"));
        loop.exec();
 
        page.mainFrame()->load(QUrl("http://www.9gag.com"));
        loop.exec();
 
        page.mainFrame()->load(QUrl("http://www.google.com"));
        loop.exec();
 
        page.mainFrame()->load(QUrl("http://www.facebook.com"));
        loop.exec();
 
        page.mainFrame()->load(QUrl("http://www.amazon.com"));
        loop.exec();
 
        page.mainFrame()->load(QUrl("http://www.twitter.com"));
        loop.exec();
 
        page.mainFrame()->load(QUrl("http://qt-project.org"));
        loop.exec();
 
        page.mainFrame()->load(QUrl("http://imdb.com"));
        loop.exec();
 
        page.mainFrame()->load(QUrl("http://techcrunch.com/"));
        loop.exec();
    }

QWebPage page;
    page.settings()->setAttribute(QWebSettings::JavascriptEnabled, true);

    QEventLoop loop;
    connect(&page, SIGNAL(loadFinished(bool)), &loop, SLOT(quit()));

    for (int i=0; i<2; i++) {
        page.mainFrame()->load(QUrl("http://www.youtube.com"));
        loop.exec();

        page.mainFrame()->load(QUrl("http://www.youtube.com"));
        loop.exec();

        page.mainFrame()->load(QUrl("http://www.9gag.com"));
        loop.exec();

        page.mainFrame()->load(QUrl("http://www.google.com"));
        loop.exec();

        page.mainFrame()->load(QUrl("http://www.facebook.com"));
        loop.exec();

        page.mainFrame()->load(QUrl("http://www.amazon.com"));
        loop.exec();

        page.mainFrame()->load(QUrl("http://www.twitter.com"));
        loop.exec();

        page.mainFrame()->load(QUrl("http://qt-project.org"));
        loop.exec();

        page.mainFrame()->load(QUrl("http://imdb.com"));
        loop.exec();

        page.mainFrame()->load(QUrl("http://techcrunch.com/"));
        loop.exec();
    }

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I'm using Qt 5.1 RC

[monkazer]

Anyone? Please I really need to fix this issue...Is it a bug in Qt? The memory should be cleared once the QWebPage is destroyed.

[monkazer]

Ok, I've found the issue. Sorry the code above wasn't totally accurate.
In my app I have QWebSettings::AutoLoadImages disabled. It looks like if QWebSettings::JavascriptEnabled is enabled, we also need to enable QWebSettings::AutoLoadImages, otherwise the memory usage is a lot higher.
I did the above test again without loading the images and the ram usage was 220mb!