[OpenLayers-Users] Releasing memory

[Janis Elmeris]

Thanks!

So if I have one map that is open from the beginning to the end when the 
page is closed, I just do nothing in this regard.

What about the known memory leaks, is there some article or discussion 
you could point me to?

Janis



On 2011.05.02. 19:50, Andreas Hocevar wrote:
> Hey,
>
> OpenLayers unloads itself properly when the page unloads (except for
> some known memory leaks). If you want to unload a map instance
> manually, you should call map.destroy().
>
> Regards,
> Andreas.
>
> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Janis Elmeris
> <janis.elmeris at intelligentsystems.lv>  wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> OpenLayers.Map has three functions that look like being used for freeing
>> memory:
>> destroy(), unloadDestroy(), updateSizeDestroy().
>>
>> Am I supposed to explicitly call them or not? From the description of
>> "unloadDestroy", for example, it seems that it is already called by
>> something.
>>
>> I'm looking something similar to Google Maps' GUnload, which is supposed to
>> be run upon page unload event - is there something similar needed for
>> OpenLayers?
>>
>> Thanks!
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