[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Surf 106

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 11:27:00AM -0500, Bobby Powers wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 09:21:50AM +0000, Bobby Powers wrote:
>>>An informal test showed that Browse in sugar-emulator used 100MB in 
>>>opening and navigating to gmail, while surf used 85MB.  That still 
>>>seems like a lot, but its a 15% savings right off the bat.
>>
>> Please document how to measure the memory use (even if non-academic), 
>> to make it possible to compare on other environments using exact same 
>> measuring method (as I suspect it may vary a lot, depending on 
>> compile options of e.g. xulrunner).
>
>What I did:
>step 1: run a new instance of sugar-emulator
>step 2: click on the browse or surf icon from the home view
>step 3: navigate to https://mail.google.com
>step 4: log in using your gmail credentials
>step 5: open gnome-system-monitor and check the memory usage

Thanks.

You did mention that your test was informal. Anyway, here are some notes 
if someone ones to test further:

I avoid registered Google services, and I guess I am not the only one: 
It would probably be good to use some public web pages.

Memory usage seem to also be about cleaning up memory[1], so probably 
would make sense to measure a larger number of web pages (fully loading 
all content on each page and then move on to the next page).

I don't use GNOME, and don't know how it calculates memory consumption. 
Probably would be better to use terminal-based measurement like "free" 
or some other tool providing more optimal info.

While googling for info about this, I also stumbled across a hint that 
Gecko-based browsers can be configured to use more or less memory cache 
- - and has a live status by entering about:cache in the address entry. 
Would be interesting to know if WebKit-based browsers have something 
similar.


  - Jonas


[1] Pages like http://dotnetperls.com/Content/Browser-Memory.aspx 
demonstrate how WebKit-based browsers in the past have struggled with 
not cleaning up properly after itself. That test was done on Windows, 
but http://blog.pavlov.net/2008/03/11/firefox-3-memory-usage/ mentions 
how recent Gecko at least (don't know about WebKit) use same memory 
allocator on Windows and Linux.

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