fix: memory leak in ipc.electron.ts#317846
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This PR improves lifecycle management for Electron IPC clients by making reconnection handling explicit and ensuring per-client resources are cleaned up when a client disconnects.
Changes:
- Extracted the reconnection
IDisposableinto a named constant for safer identity checks. - Added one-time cleanup on client disconnect/reconnect to remove stale
Server.Clientsentries and dispose the reconnect emitter.
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Fixes a memory leak in ipc.electron.ts
Details
When a client connects, it is stored in
Server.Clients. But it seems when a client disconnects, its entry fromServer.Clientsisn't removed.Change
The changes tries to ensure when a client disconnects, its entry from
Server.Clientsis removed as well.Before
When opening and closing a new window 17 times, the number of functions in ipc.electron.ts seems to grow by one each time:
After
When opening and closing a new window 17 times, no more leak in ipc.electron.ts is detected (if you look closely at the charts there is one less row):