[Webtest] Memory issue (problem in htmlunit)

[Dierk Koenig]

super finding!

thanx a lot for your effort
Mittie

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> Sent: Freitag, 14. Oktober 2005 2:03
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> Subject: [Webtest] Memory issue (problem in htmlunit)
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>
> We've been using canoo webtest for a while now. Overall
> we're very happy with it and find it very useful. The issue we had stems
> from memory usage, it seems others have also had this.
>
> We're using canoo webtest to do some testing of our java web app, and have
> quite a few tests split up into many test files.
> Each test has around 20-30 steps on average.
>
> We're calling them from an ant build file like so:
>
> <ant antfile="test1.xml"/>
> <ant antfile="test2.xml"/>
> <ant antfile="test3.xml"/>
> etc.
>
> However, as we got more and more tests, we started getting memory errors
> as the ant task never let the memory go.
>
> Using a profiler on the ant task, I found that htmlunit was starting a
> setimeout thread that was never being stopped, so ant would hang onto the
> memory until all of the tests had finished. After making this thread stop
> straight away, all of the memory issues disappeared, and speed was
> improved.
>
> The thread is in Window.java if anyone is curious. I'll talk to the
> htmlunit guys and hopefully get a patch in to fix this.
>
> Ash
>
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