How to find memory leak in a web application running in IE?

Question

I wrote a web application that, after a while, makes use of IE 8 memory soar under Gig. I think there is a memory leak somewhere in javascript, but I have no idea how to find the root cause of this.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

I use intervals to call ajax methods on the Java backend, and I use Prototype as the JS library ...

Answer 1

Drip and IE Sieve leak detectors help web developers improve the performance of dynamic web pages by reporting preventable memory leaks caused by Internet Explorer restrictions.

try JavaScript JavaScript leak detector