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P1: Critical Description
QtWebEngine continuously allocates memory until it get killed. I first experienced this on a embedded system with 1 GB memory and Qt 5.15.6 but I can reproduce this behavior also with Qt 6.2.0 RC.
To be able to simply reproduce this behavior I used a simple html page (see attachement) which shows the time and date and refreshes every second. I used the simplebrowser example and Arch Linux Qt 6.2.0RC build for this test.
At the beginning the memory footprint looked like this:
After about 15 hours it looked like this:
