Hi, I’m loading gltf models continuously when I check the memory usage by hovering the chrome tab it is very high. I tried disposing of the objects by following the documentation but there is not much improvement. [memorysnapshot] [memory usage] The first image is the memory snapshots I took, …

dispose disposes only the resources allocated on the GPU. You seem to be having a CPU memory leak - ie. you’re storing the references to loaded objects somewhere in the memory, preventing garbage collector from throwing them away. You can expand the trees in the memory snapshot to find the specific …

@mjurczyk Even after disposing of the geometries and materials after removing the meshes mesh objects with geometry and material remain. [image]

Disposal does not have anything to do with the memory you’re looking at. Dispose disposes assets from the GPU. The memory snapshots you’re sharing are CPU memory / JS heap stack. Make sure you’re not storing your meshes in any arrays, besides scene.children (I mean, you can and often need to, but …

@mjurczyk I had an array of meshes but I added it to the disposal function and set the length of the array to 0. Are you asking that if I am assigning the mesh to a variable? I have a warning for every mesh I load THREE.GLTFLoader: Missing min/max properties for accessor POSITION. other than tha…

This discussion has a less than 50 line example that proves it. [image] Proof that GLTFLoader does not free memory in Safari that it frees in Chrome Discussion I am verifying that the isSafari logic three.js/examples/jsm/loaders/GLTFLoader.js at b82693c62d8ae9761f18f14505…

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