topic Re: Memory consumption more than double from Esri 3.x to Esri 4.29 in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions

Memory consumption more than double from Esri 3.x to Esri 4.29

JonathanTiu — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 05:07:18 GMT

hi,

We were doing some profiling of our application as we moved from Esri 3.x to Esri 4.29. We basically had an application with 6 maps using just a GraphicsLayer on each map and drawing various polygons representing different regions. We just load our application and render the 6 maps like this:

With Esri 3.x, the heap snapshot is around ~ 220MB.

Loading the same application with Esri 4.29, the heap snapshot is more than double at a whopping 520MB+ !

Obviously the first biggest difference are all these ArrayBuffers and JSArrayBufferData objects - many of them seem related to the Esri 4 MapView and probably WebGL i presume but this incredible that the memory usage would double?

I am just wondering if there is anything we can do with the way we use Esri 4 to reduce our memory usage?

Double the memory usage seems quite excessive.

This is causing a potentially ship killer issue for some of our colleagues who are trying to use our application in a mobile environment where memory usage is important. we are at a loss to explain why we have more than doubled our memory by going to Esri 4.29.

Re: Memory consumption more than double from Esri 3.x to Esri 4.29

AddisonShaw — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 15:29:44 GMT

I've also been tracking memory in our application and see the huge JSArrayBufferData objects. These seem to be mostly owned by the MapView in something called mosaicData.

Re: Memory consumption more than double from Esri 3.x to Esri 4.29

ericsamson_tract — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:22:14 GMT

Seeing this in our experience builder move. Going from 800 mb on average used to 2 gbs +. It's hard to explain that experience builder is the future to team members with this bad of performance.

Did either of you figure out a way to reduce the JSArrayBufferData sizes?