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Cleaning up memory leak without completely destroying the driver? #639

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@skyhirider

I've been running HtmlUnit via Selenium in 16 threads for hours and noticed the memory is accumulating over time.

Destroying the driver is one solution I am looking into, but so far it seems like most of the leakage is from javascript.

Is there a clean way to purge a driver or HtmlUnit itself to close all active pages, terminating and cleaning up any related javascript objects as well?

The workaround is to remember when a driver was instantiated and if it has been alive for long enough, save the cookies, destroy the driver, spin up a new one and inject the cookies back. But that is a lot of work just to do cleanup.

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