-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 03:06:26PM -0500, Bobby Powers wrote: >On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <d...@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 - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmu6FEACgkQn7DbMsAkQLiSIQCggMC4m5uCIOiQBz8TAjDSYZil +xkAn3pn/nPtc0lvnq8LCUGFjBVKVUgR =wCaF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel