User:Mdaniels5757/chromeAutoGarbageCollect.js

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/**
 * @file This script just runs Chrome's garbage collector periodically.
 * (every wait_ms milliseconds, to be exact).
 * Made because there's some sort of memory leak in one script/gadget or another
 * and I can't be bothered to figure out which.
 * The relevant Chrome flag must be enabled for this to work.
 * 
 * @copyright Copyright 2020 Michael Daniels (Wikipedia User:Mdaniels5757)
 * @license Your choice of CC-BY-SA-3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode) and Apache 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
 */ 

if (wait_ms === null) var wait_ms = 61000;

function sleep(ms) {
  return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
}

function runGC() {
	window.gc();
	
	sleep(wait_ms).then(() => {
		runGC();
	});
}

runGC();