Example 04.01 - MeshBasicMaterial

# About the memory leak when dispose the texture **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions\ **Tags:** textures, performance\ **Created:** [April 23, 2018, 1:33am UTC](https://discourse.threejs.org/t/about-the-memory-leak-when-dispose-the-texture/2543 "2018-04-23T01:33:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1

**Author:** ![jinjin9527](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.threejs.org/jinjin9527/32/1640_2.png) [@jinjin9527](https://discourse.threejs.org/u/jinjin9527)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2018, 1:33am UTC](https://discourse.threejs.org/t/about-the-memory-leak-when-dispose-the-texture/2543/1 "2018-04-23T01:33:39Z")

I create a mesh which is consist of PlaneGeometry using MeshBasicMaterial. And then, I changed the map of the material to an image. On mouse ：create a texture from the image and put it to the material’s map Over mouse：dispose the texture and set the material’s map to undefined. It seems work well, but there is a problem that the memory is increasing all the time. How can I reset the the material’s map in a right way? ---

**Author:** ![Mugen87](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.threejs.org/mugen87/32/5645_2.png) [@Mugen87](https://discourse.threejs.org/u/Mugen87)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2018, 1:05pm UTC](https://discourse.threejs.org/t/about-the-memory-leak-when-dispose-the-texture/2543/2 "2018-04-23T13:05:31Z")

Can you please demonstrate the leak with a live example? If you correctly dispose the texture, it requires debugging to find the bottleneck. ---

**Author:** ![jinjin9527](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.threejs.org/jinjin9527/32/1640_2.png) [@jinjin9527](https://discourse.threejs.org/u/jinjin9527)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 6:05am UTC](https://discourse.threejs.org/t/about-the-memory-leak-when-dispose-the-texture/2543/3 "2018-05-29T06:05:09Z")

``` Example 04.01 - MeshBasicMaterial

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**Author:** ![jinjin9527](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.threejs.org/jinjin9527/32/1640_2.png) [@jinjin9527](https://discourse.threejs.org/u/jinjin9527)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 6:10am UTC](https://discourse.threejs.org/t/about-the-memory-leak-when-dispose-the-texture/2543/4 "2018-05-29T06:10:36Z")

I created a sample,just like above. 20 spheres and cubes are created every three mins.My question is when I execute this sample 12 hours, it seems that there is a memory leak.Is there any problem in the 「removeObjectFromScene」method? ---

**Author:** ![jinjin9527](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.threejs.org/jinjin9527/32/1640_2.png) [@jinjin9527](https://discourse.threejs.org/u/jinjin9527)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2018, 7:21am UTC](https://discourse.threejs.org/t/about-the-memory-leak-when-dispose-the-texture/2543/5 "2018-06-13T07:21:55Z")

sorry, I forgot to put the example into Preformatted text area. ---

**Author:** ![Mugen87](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.threejs.org/mugen87/32/5645_2.png) [@Mugen87](https://discourse.threejs.org/u/Mugen87)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2018, 3:01pm UTC](https://discourse.threejs.org/t/about-the-memory-leak-when-dispose-the-texture/2543/6 "2018-06-13T15:01:02Z")

You example code does not work with textures. I though you original performance problem is related to textures? Anyway, your code is now similar to [https://threejs.org/examples/#webgl\_test\_memory](https://threejs.org/examples/#webgl_test_memory). I was not able to monitor a memory leak in this case. BTW: Here is your sample as a fiddle: [https://jsfiddle.net/f2Lommf5/6961/](https://jsfiddle.net/f2Lommf5/6961/) ---

**Author:** ![jinjin9527](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.threejs.org/jinjin9527/32/1640_2.png) [@jinjin9527](https://discourse.threejs.org/u/jinjin9527)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2018, 6:32am UTC](https://discourse.threejs.org/t/about-the-memory-leak-when-dispose-the-texture/2543/7 "2018-06-14T06:32:54Z")

Thank you for replying. Sorry for not explaining the reason why I separated the example which was mentioned above from textures program. That is I demonstrated that there is no problem with textures. And I shorten the changing time from every three mins to every three seconds , and then execute it one day to see if any thing will happen. According to [webgl\_test\_memory], there is no problem in the [removeObjectFromScene] method, so I think the memory leak is still in my program. I will finish this question if nothing happened.😅