[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Surf 106

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 03:06:26PM -0500, Bobby Powers wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>> [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.
>
>wow.  it should be quite interesting to look at the memory usage over
>time to see if webkit has either fixed their memory leaks or caching
>strategy.

I suspect that the author of that article may have not been aware of the 
caching, so numbers going up might not be a bad thing: Another article 
described how Safari memory usage dropped from 200M to 40M when Firefox 
was opened - which I interpret as "when some other application needed 
the memory".

In other words: It might be that Gecko limits its caching to a 
configured memory "roof" while WebKit rely on the OS to limits its 
playground, but is quick to then drop cached parts when needed.


Seems complex to measure properly.


  - Jonas

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