Hi Ivan, How are you determining the memory use of multiple processes? Is it accounting for shared mappings? For example, I have a database application that has mappings shared across processes for each core. When I look at top(1), my memory usage would appear to be 200% when 4 processes are reporting 50% usage. 49% is shared across all processes. In an application like surf, where it loads a lot of shared libraries, the shared mappings are code, not data.
Also, I prefer to isolate state between different browser windows/tabs. If firefox is sharing process state between windows, and saving memory usage that way, then I see it as a security design issue. Ben Original Message From: Ivan Tham Sent: Monday, June 1, 2015 8:23 AM To: dev@suckless.org Reply To: dev mail list Subject: Re: [dev] [surf] Using more memory than firefox On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 04:14:36PM +0100, Raphaël Proust wrote: >> Hi, I use 2 windows of surf uses more memory then using firefox with 6 tabs >> opened. Is there some memory leaks? >Open the six exact tabs of your FF in surf and compare that. >Open the two pages from your surf into your FF and compare that. > >Some pages occupy more memory than others. Yeah, I know about that too. When you just opened both of it, firefox will consume much more memory. But after about 100 clicks, just look at the momory. Firefox stays around +-2% and surf takes around 10%++ or even 20%++ when you are loading javascript heavy sites. Note: The percentage difference is high because my computer has lesser ram. -- _____________________________________ < Do what you like, like what you do. > ------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||
