[Htmlunit-user] OutOfMemoryError

[Mike A <pun...@ho...>]

Hi everyone,

I've been using HtmlUnit for 3 days now and it's working beautifully, except 
for the memory usage.  Sometimes when a complicated page loads, the memory 
usage jumps 10 MB.  As I'm using it to recursively open new pages in our web 
application, this quickly boils over into an OutOfMemoryError.  I'm aware of 
the ability to increase the memory available to Java, and I was wondering 
what a reasonable setting would be for this.

Reading the message list, I saw a recommendation that new WebClients be 
created so that cached information can be cleared, but as our application 
uses cookies specific to one browser and the login process takes at least 15 
seconds (not my doing!) this doesn't seem doable for us.  Is there a 
programatic way to clear this cache or a proper way of disposing of unwanted 
HtmlPages that I missed in the JavaDocs?

Thanks for the assistance,
Mike

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