[web] Force a GC before each benchmark reload to keep /dev/shm from filling up (#193822) `Linux web_benchmarks_ddc` occasionally goes silent right after a benchmark reloads the page and stays that way until the 60-minute build timeout. Every reload detaches the previous document, and each detached document keeps ~2.5 GB of unlinked `/dev/shm` segments alive until a major GC collects it. Chrome doesn't schedule that GC on its own (the JS heap barely grows between reloads), so `/dev/shm` (a tmpfs capped at half the RAM, 15 GB on the bots) climbs ~2.5 GB per reload and only drops when a GC happens to run. Six reloads without one fill it up, and the ~1200 DDC script requests of the next benchmark fail with: ``` Failed to load resource: net::ERR_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES Failed to load DDC scripts after 6 tries ``` Example CI failures: - https://ci.chromium.org/b/8669194409660736177 - https://ci.chromium.org/b/8669101540217564753 - https://ci.chromium.org/b/8669090225917741873 `/dev/shm` growth measured on an instrumented try run (https://ci.chromium.org/b/8669026420082427889): 3% → 20% → 36% → 53% → 69% → 86% over reloads #21–#26, then 100% (140 KB free) at the first refused request. Forcing a GC at 86% drops it to 1% in ~2.5s (https://ci.chromium.org/b/8669022530080696465). It was 0 B at task start and after Chrome exits on every bot sampled, so nothing accumulates across runs. This PR calls `HeapProfiler.collectGarbage` over CDP right before handing the page the next benchmark name (after the previous results were posted, before the reload), so at most one detached document is alive at any time. 35/35 green try runs with the fix (e.g. https://ci.chromium.org/b/8669018927607202977, https://ci.chromium.org/b/8669017714155624401) vs ~10% failures without it. The instrumented branch with the full investigation is https://github.com/mdebbar/flutter/tree/deflake_linux_web_benchmarks. Fixes https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/193727
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