Excessive memory consumption at rare occasions

[stefanos82]

Before the latest improvements, I have noticed a very peculiar behavior with Zeal when left open, in idle mode.

After some hours left opened, I would notice a weird lagging on my system and would check my task manager, only to find out zeal devours memory without (apparent) reason.

The usual suspect is the following behavior: you open zeal, you search for something and then you close the tab window while you leave zeal open sitting idle.

After hours, you decide to run a new search; that's when you realize something is off.

I have managed to catch a snippet of candidate reason, but I have no evidence to justify my finding; it's the local web server service that starts to load the offline content, but remains open in the background, until I close zeal and reopen it.

Any idea what would cause this @trollixx?

[trollixx]

Memory leaks are quite possible. Since you mentioned the web server, I have just pushed an update of the bundled copy of cpp-httplib to the latest release (see 5a5eef9). It was 4 years old, and the release history mentions memory leaks a few times.

[stefanos82]

Very nice! I've just pulled the latest commit and compiled it.

I will keep an eye on it and if anything new happens, I will let you know.