Garbage Collection

Overview

OpenFin leverages the Chromium v8 Garbage Collector.  This article provides information on how to log and trigger Garbage Collection.

 

Garbage Collection Logging

Steps

Logging GC events can be enabled by adding the following flags to the runtime arguments:

--js-flags="--trace-gc --trace-gc-verbose"

For information on how to configure Runtime arguments please see: Configuring Runtime Arguments 

Enable Garbage Collection Control

Prerequisites

Runtime version 10.66.39.43 or newer

Steps

By default, it is not possible to trigger Garbage Collection (GC), this article explains how to enable control over the chromium Garbage Collection within an OpenFin application.  

To enable GC control, add the following flags to the Applications Runtime Arguments:

 --js-flags=\"--expose-gc --trace-gc --log-gc\"

(See Configuring Runtime Arguments for more information)

Once enable GC can be trigged by calling:

window.gc()