Severe memory leaks in the Autodesk Forge viewer on devices - memory-leaks

I'm developing an Angular/ Typescript application that makes use of the Autodesk Forge viewer to display building models on smartphones and tablets. The application itself runs smoothly, but the problem occurs when I close the application. After closing the application, I notice that hardly any memory gets released, as can be seen in the image below (I close the application around the 8 seconds mark) and after opening the viewer for two or three more times it will run out of memory and crash.
When I close the application, I call both the tearDown() and the finish() method as described in the Forge docs and set all possible references to the Forge viewer to null, but they memory leak still persists. This is the main chunk of my viewer code:
this.initOptions = {
path: 'url to model',
env: 'Local',
useADP: false,
extensions: [],
};
Autodesk.Viewing.Initializer(this.initOptions, () => {
this.onEnvInitialized();
});
private onEnvInitialized() {
this.viewer = new Autodesk.Viewing.Private.GuiViewer3D(this.viewerContainer.nativeElement, {});
this.viewer.initialize();
this.viewer.loadModel(this.initOptions.path, {}, (doc) => {
// further forge viewer execution here
}, (errorMsg) => {
console.log(errorMsg);
});
}
public ngOnDestroy() {
// remove all eventlisteners
this.initOptions = null;
this.viewer.tearDown();
this.viewer.finish();
this.viewer = null;
}
Is this a known issue and/ or is there some way I can manually release the memory used by the Forge viewer after closure? (It is part of the use case that I have to be able to open more than three viewers after each other in one session.)
Update [19-09-17]
I tried opening my viewer in a fresh, empty angular2 project, and although less memory is being used in general, the same behavoir of not clearing the memory still applies, as can be seen here. I do notice that the event listeners are drastically reduced now. I also updated the Forge Viewer to version 2.17, and the same issue still applies here as well.

The problem remains with version 3.3.5 of the forge viewer. The issue however seems a bit deeper. It looks like when calling viewer.finish() it doesn't release any GPU memory used for the textures.
We call this function everytime you navigate away from the page with the viewer as angular destroys the canvas in the DOM. I would expect .finish to also remove the textures from the memory. Is there any other function that can be called to completely unload any model and textures?
Here are some screenshots where you can see the memory buildup.
Initial initialisation of the page
after returning to this page after closing it
after returning to this page after closing it a third time

What version of the Viewer are you currently using? Here you can see a list of the recent changes on the viewer version, v2.17 has a Memory Limit ON by default.
https://developer.autodesk.com/en/docs/viewer/v2/overview/changelog/
Also the version of the viewer can be checked if it is not been defined from the console by typing LMV_VIEWER_VERSION

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I have a hololens app I am creating that requires the best accuracy possible for hologram placement. This application will be used by numerous individuals. Whenever I try to show the application progress, I have to have the user go through the calibration process, otherwise the holograms appear to have way too much drift.
I would like to be able to call the hololens calibration process automatically when the application opens. Later, after I set up user authentication and id management, I will call the calibration process when a new user is found.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/mixed-reality/calibration
I have looked into the calibration (via the above documentation and elsewhere) and it seems that all it is setting is IPD. However the alternative solutions I have found that allow for dynamic ipd adjustment appear to be invalid for UWP Store apps. This makes them unusable for me.
I am looking for any help or direction, or if this is even possible. Thank you.
Yes, it is possible to to this, you need to use the LaunchUriAsync protocol to launch the following URI: ms-hololenssetup://EyeTracking
Here is an example implementation, obtained from the LaunchUri example in MRTK
public void LaunchEyeTracking()
{
#if WINDOWS_UWP
UnityEngine.WSA.Application.InvokeOnUIThread(async () =>
{
bool result = await global::Windows.System.Launcher.LaunchUriAsync(new System.Uri("ms-hololenssetup://EyeTracking"));
if (!result)
{
Debug.LogError("Launching URI failed to launch.");
}
}, false);
#else
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localstorage undefined on ie11 (windows 10) what is the solution? [duplicate]

The localStorage object in Internet Explorer 11 (Windows 7 build) contains string representations of certain functions instead of native calls as you would expect.
This only breaks with vanilla JavaScript and sites like JSFiddle have no problem with this code but I suspect it's because there are localStorage polyfills in place that correct it.
Take this HTML page code for example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<script>
localStorage.setItem('test', '12345');
alert(localStorage.getItem('test'));
localStorage.clear();
</script>
This works perfectly well in all my installed browsers except for IE11. An error occurs on the first line 'SCRIPT5002: Function expected'.
Taking a look at what type the setItem function actually is in the IE developer tools console, states that it's a string...?
typeof localStorage.setItem === 'string' // true
Printing out the string for setItem displays the following:
"function() {
var result;
callBeforeHooks(hookSite, this, arguments);
try {
result = func.apply(this, arguments);
} catch (e) {
callExceptHooks(hookSite, this, arguments, e);
throw e;
} finally {
callAfterHooks(hookSite, this, arguments, result);
}
return result;
}"
Oddly enough, not all functions have been replaced with strings, for example, the corresponding getItem function is indeed a function and works as expected.
typeof localStorage.getItem === 'function' // true
Changing the document mode (emulation) to 10 or 9 still doesn't resolve the problem and both result in the same error. Changing the document mode to 8 gives the following error 'Object doesn't support this property or method' which is expected since IE8 doesn't support localStorage.
Is anyone else having the same issue with IE11 on Windows 7 where the localStorage object seems 'broken/corrupt'?
Turns out this is a problem in the base version of IE11 (11.0.9600.16428) for Windows 7 SP1.
After installing a patch to update to 11.0.9600.16476 (update version 11.0.2 - KB2898785) the issue gets resolved. Links to other versions of Windows (32-bit etc.) can be found at the bottom of the patch download page.
It's not just IE11's fault.
Probably WEINRE is injected into the page. It hooks into several system functions to provide Developer Tools functionality, but IE11 interprets assignments to the localStorage and sessionStorage properties wrong, and converts the hook functions into strings, as if they were the data that is going to be stored.
There's a comment in the apache/cordova-weinre repo which says:
#In IE we should not override standard storage functions because IE does it incorrectly - all values that set as
# storage properties (e.g. localStorage.setItem = function()[...]) are cast to String.
# That leads to "Function expected" exception when any of overridden function is called.
object[property] = hookedFunction unless navigator.userAgent.match(/MSIE/i) and (object is localStorage or object is sessionStorage)
Looks like it's either an old version of WEINRE being used, or this change hasn't been officially released (it's been there since 2013).
My localStorage returned undefined and I couldn't figure out why - until I realized that it was because I was running the HTML-page (with the localStorage script) directly from my computer (file:///C:/Users/...). When I accessed the page from a server/localhost instead it localStorage was indeed defined and worked.
In addition to the already excellent answers here, I'd like to add another observation. In my case, the NTFS permissions on the Windows %LOCALAPPDATA% directory structure were somehow broken.
To diagnose this issue. I created a new Windows account (profile), which worked fine with the localStorage,so then I painstakingly traversed the respective %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer trees looking for discrepancies.
I found this gem:
C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Microsoft>icacls "Internet Explorer"
Internet Explorer Everyone:(F)
I have NO idea how the permissions were set wide open!
Worse, all of the subdirectories has all permissions off. No wonder the DOMStore was inaccessible!
The working permissions from the other account were:
NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(OI)(CI)(F)
BUILTIN\Administrators:(OI)(CI)(F)
my-pc\test:(OI)(CI)(F)
Which matched the permissions of the parent directory.
So, in a fit of laziness, I fixed the problem by having all directories "Internet Explorer" and under inherit the permissions. The RIGHT thing to do would be to manually apply each permission and not rely on the inherit function. But one thing to check is the NTFS permissions of %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer if you experience this issue. If DOMStore has broken permissions, all attempts to access localStorage will be met with Access Denied.

How to optimize my heroku webapp

I'm new to web development and I'm currently in the process of building my own website for my portfolio. My app uses node, express, and Heroku to launch it online. However, the page isn't as smooth as I'd like it to be. It drops a lot of frames when scrolling and viewing animations. I'm wondering what I can do to make my app feel buttery smooth. I've looked all around for solutions but I'm too new to development to really understand what to do. I've attempted to use the inspector to see if the css or javascript files are slowing down the processes via the waterfall insepctor, but came up dry. So far, I've compressed the files and lowered the scale of all images. Also, the entire website is static content so I can't imagine why its running so slowly. Any help would be much appreciated.
The website in question
The "lag" could be caused by the ScrollFire plugin. Every time you call Materialize.scrollFire(..) you actually add a JavaScript listener for the "scroll" event. The way you use it, you call Materialize.scrollFire for each of your target objects, so you actually create multiple "scroll" listeners. But the scrollFire options is actually an array of targets, so you could get away with only initializing it once. Like so:
var options = [
{selector: '.iphone1', offset: 300, callback: function(el) {
$('.iphone1').css('visibility', 'visible');
$('.iphone1').addClass('animated slideInLeft');
}},
{selector: '#paragraph_intro', offset: 300, callback: function(el) {
$('#paragraph_intro').css('visibility', 'visible');
$('#paragraph_intro').addClass('animated slideInRight');
}},
// ... And so on
];
Materialize.scrollFire(options);
It could also be caused by your own scroll listener at:
$(window).on('scroll', function(){
updateNavigation();
changeNavColor();
changeHeaderColor();
});
I would consider adding some kind of throttling, so these functions are called less frequent while the user is scrolling.
These may not be the problem, or the whole problem, as I cannot see how the page would behave without it, but it could have an impact, so it's worth investigating.

Zing Chart Memory Leak, causing browser to crash

We are currently rendering 50-100 canvas on browser window. Browsers both IE and chrome crashes.
On further investigation, looks like memory is creeping up steadily. Causing browser to crash.
We are building a solution to print charts To achieve this,
We are displaying all the charts in a simple page (iframe) charts are not visible to user
Using chart id to getting image data.
Since charts are not visible we can ‘destroy’ or remove them from memory once they are rendered.
But ‘destroy’ does not reduce charts memory footprint
Tried setting object to null. this did not work either
Attached snippet for your reference,
var runner = 0
zingchart.complete = function (dataObj) {
for (i = 0; i < ZingChartCollection.length; i++) {
if (dataObj["id"] == ZingChartCollection[i].ChartId) {
var data = zingchart.exec(dataObj["id"], "getimagedata", '{"filetype": "png"}');
zingchart.exec(dataObj["id"], 'destroy');
zingchart.exec();
if (runner < 200) {
document.getElementById("displayCount").value = runner;
render();
}
else {
//zingchart = null;
}
runner++;
}
}
}
Any suggestions would be great.
Here's a note regarding the issue from the ZinChart dev team:
The issue here is that the render() -> complete event -> image generation -> destroy() is a closed loop.
The way the ZingChart lib works, in order to fire the complete as soon as possible, the code was binding the context menu events AFTER the complete was fired.
So, since destroy was being called immediately, the context menu events were left out in the open, and with 50-100 charts it starts to add, leading to memory leaks.
This will be changed & fixed in the next versions in order to fire the complete event after the context menu setup, however, with the current setup, there are two options:
use mode:static on render() since the idea is to get the static image out of the chart. This skips event binding so memory leak will no longer be an issue.
Also, since less canvas objects will be used, this will dramatically decrease the memory needed per chart.
if you need the complete functionality of the charts (although not needed in this particular case), call the destroy() in a delayed function via setTimeout. This will allow
for the context menu events to be set, so destroy() will also unbind them.

Appcelerator. Handle memory usage. Best practice

Titanium SDK version: 1.7.0
iPhone SDK version: 4.2
I am developing an iOS app and I monitor the memory usage for each window And it keeps decreasing for every screen.
What is consuming memory in general? I use views, tables and XHR data.
How can I release memory / decrease usage on each window?
Thankful for all input!
Considering you are dealing with JavaScript being translated to Objective-C and can't necessarily write a native solution without using modules you could start by setting window variables to null (myJsWindowVar = null;), or delete those variables using delete (delete myJsWindowVar;). Personally I think setting variables to null will better translate to the suggested Objective-C best practice which is to set a pointer reference to null and prevent orphaned objects from hanging around.
Make sure you close unused windows and clear our any references to native objects you no longer need in the app.
// create a window object
var aWindow = Ti.UI.createWindow();
var aLabel = Ti.UI.createLabel({ text : "Hey" });
aWindow.add(aLabel);
aWindow.open();
// done with window
aWindow.close();
aWindow = null;
aLabel.null;
Check out this presentation from the Appcelerator Codestrong conference for more details.

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