I\'ve spent days on this and hit it from every angle I can think of. I\'m working on a simple windows 7 gadget. This script will pull JSON data from a remote web server an
Found this thread trying to find the underlying reason to this problem because I also had a similar problem recently although my memory would increase about 1Mb per minute... I pretty much isolated it to json parsing. Run the ajax command with type: 'text', and you should see that the memory gets cleaned up.
I found a library json_parse.js which recursively parses the json data using the JS engine (not eval). I manually parse the text data to json in the success callback and this works well.