[Development] Memory Leak in QtWebKit

[Alexis Menard]

2012/2/29 BRM <bm_witness at yahoo.com>:
> Just FYI - this is probably a better question for the qt-interests list as
> this list is focused on Qt5 at the moment (and post 5.0 after that).

I don't think it has something to do with Qt5 development sorry.

He posted at the right place. I answered to him but forgot to CC the ML.

>
> $0.02
>
> BRM
>
> ________________________________
> From: 陳敏華 <chenmh at cn.fujitsu.com>
> To: development at qt-project.org
> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 10:58 PM
> Subject: [Development] Memory Leak in QtWebKit
>
> Dear all
>
> I'd like to ask you question about memory leak in Webkit. Currently, I am
> using
> QtWebkit self contained in Qt 4.8.0, and my test application is like
> follows:
>
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>     QApplication a(argc, argv);
>     QWebView* view = new QWebView();
>     view->load(QUrl("http://www.baidu.com"));
>     view->show();
>     a.exec();
>     delete view;
>     return 0;
> }
>
> As you know, Webkit provide RefCountedLeakCounter class to detect memory
> leak.
> When I run this test application in debug mode, I have noticed that many
> WebCoreNodes and CachedResource have leaked. This leak could be a big
> problem
> because we want to make use of WebKit in embedded device.
>
> So, I'd like to ask you all whether this memory leak real or not? I just
> can't
> believe Webkit would leak memory in such a simple test, or if Webkit
> provides
> some other mechanism to ensure memory will not be leaked, please tell me.
>
> Can anyone provide some information about this problem? I really appreciate
> your
> help.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Eric Chen
>
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Alexis Menard (darktears)
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INdT Recife Brazil