[Feature]: Cleanup of Nodes after each individual test

[RafiTheGoat]

🚀 Feature Request

I would like playwright to dispose of the nodes attached to each test after an execution of a test is done. I am facing a memory issue since i have over 350 playwright tests running and each individual node is active in the background, until all tests are done.

Example

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Motivation

It will make Playwright more lightweight and efficient

[yury-s]

Are you talking about Node.js instances? Can you describe your use case in more details and attach a code example?

[RafiTheGoat]

Yes, talking about Node.js instances launched by Playwright. I have a custom testing framework that i cannot modify the browser and driver launch. I launch a whole test suite containing over 350 tests and the nodes linger for each test regardless of the test result.

I guess what I'm trying to understand is how to properly dispose of the node instances for each test.

[yury-s]

Please share a repro that we could run locally. It's unclear how those node instances are related to your Playwright tests.

I am facing a memory issue since i have over 350 playwright tests running and each individual node is active in the background,

Are you running all the tests in parallel, how many tests workers are you running with? With N workers you'll have at least N+1 node instances running, this is expected.

[yury-s]

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