[Webtest] Re: Memory issue (problem in htmlunit)

[Dierk Koenig]

cool. thanks for posting
Mittie

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> Subject: [Webtest] Re: Memory issue (problem in htmlunit)
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> The problem we had with htmlunit turned out to be caused by our usage of
> setTimeout in javascript.
>
> What was happening is that we were using setTimeout to end the session, so
> setTimeout was being called with an argument of 900000ms (15 minutes).
> This meant that canoo test was being kept in memory for 15 minutes, even
> though the test itself had long ago finished. This was why we were running
> out of memory, as the tests themselves were never removed from memory.
>
> We found a way around it, by setting the user-agent string in canoo
> webtest to have the word canoo in it. Then when we call setTimeout, we
> check the user agent string, and if canoo is there we make setTimeout to
> 250ms, instead of 900000ms. It's a bit of a hack but it works.
>
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