I\'m redrawing the chart based on new data each second, and it works and looks great, but I notice it increase memory like 1 MB usage each second. Any way to fix this? I notice
I've solved this by globaly store the chart. Before draw the chart, you need to check if chart has been instantiated. If not, create the new chart object else call clearChart() method before draw it. Like this:
//Store all chart objects in a global array to avoid memory leak
var charts = [];
function drawChart(chartName, element, data, chartOptions) {
if (charts[chartName] === undefined || charts[chartName] === null) {
charts[chartName] = new google.visualization.LineChart(group);
} else {
charts[chartName].clearChart();
}
charts[chartName].draw(dataTable, chartOptions);
}
Had same issue, was able to fix it by adding a few lines to Google's clearChart() function.
W.clearChart = function() {
//this fixes the leak
hv = {};
iv = {};
jv = {};
...
};
More Details:
https://www.google.com/uds/api/visualization/1.0/4086f2e8fc632adc52e6d6795a5637a4/format+en,default,corechart.I.js
Download this file, make the change mentioned above. In your code, add a script tag to load above file from your webserver and comment out the following line:
// google.load('visualization', '1', { packages: ['corechart'] });
The memory will go up but will come back down on it's own after a few minutes.
I'm using clearChart() but if you don't want to clear the chart, then create your own function (e.g. memoryLeakFix()) and call it periodically.
Here's a test page (the 1.js is the modified file from step 1). It basically creates new chart and redraws every 100ms. You will see memory go up but hit "Stop" link to stop the redrawing and wait a few minutes and memory will come down.
<!DOCTYPE html> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title></title> <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="https://www.google.com/jsapi" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="1.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> //init google charts // google.load('visualization', '1', { packages: ['corechart'] }); google.load('visualization', '1', { packages: ['table'] }); </script> </head> <body> <a href='#' onclick='stop()'>Stop</a> <div class='chart'></div> <script> var chart; var table; function createChart(container) { if(chart != undefined) chart.clearChart(); //init chart chart = new google.visualization.LineChart(container[0]); //init chart data if(table == undefined) { table = new google.visualization.DataTable(); table.addColumn('datetime', 'Time'); table.addColumn('number', 'Value'); var count = 0; //periodically add rows setInterval(function() { //add row table.addRows([ [new Date(), count++]]); }, 1000); } } //start redrawing var id = setInterval(function() { createChart($('.chart')); drawChart(); }, 100); //stop redrawing function stop() { clearInterval(id); } //draw chart function drawChart() { chart.draw(table, { curveType: "function", width: 250, height: 250, pointSize: 1, legend: { position: 'none' }, chartArea: { 'width': '90%', left: 50 }, }); } </script> </body> </html>