Re: [webkit-dev] Query regarding MemoryCache.cpp evict function

2012-02-09 Thread Evan Martin
This stack overflow thread discusses, with man page citations, why code that frees memory may not necessarily lower a process's RSS. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7522284/insanity-is-free On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:23 AM, Abhishek Sikdar wrote: > > I am currently working on a local JS based w

[webkit-dev] Query regarding MemoryCache.cpp evict function

2012-02-09 Thread Abhishek Sikdar
I am currently working on a local JS based web application running on the Webkit engine. To save some memory I forcibly called the evict function in MemoryCache.cpp and called that from an API and used it to remove the local WebUI files (Images, CSS and JS) just when the page finished loading. On