On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Mike Marchywka <marchywka@hotmail.com>wrote:
So where does this stand right now? I hope to actually contribute at some point. but right now I'm just trying to determine approaches to even finding the problems. ( and yes my disk light still comes on for minutes at a time locking me out of doing antyhing with iceweasel or firefox)
Yes, you've mentioned your disk light blinking several times now. If you have specific bugs to file against specific projects, I suggest you do that. Repeatedly posting about it on webkit-dev (until now, in unrelated threads) doesn't seem particularly useful. I guess at a gross level it would be nice to know when and why page faults
occur but a more pro-active approach would be to start understanding the memory needs during design or code examination for other reasons. If there is nothing better, perhaps people could put in formatted comments about memory needs and access patterns and various parameters or issues or assumptions that in the code. I haven't entirely thought this through (duh) and hope to stimulate a discussion ( actually I'd be happy if someone had a one line answer or link to an answer but am not that opitmistic).
I would approach this as an addition to finding memory leaks but maybe the worst offenders will go away if there is less clutter.
This is all fairly hand-wavy. If you have specific problems you've seen, please file bugs. If you want to spend some time investigating these issues, great. But I don't understand why you keep bringing this up. Especially since, as far as I can tell, it only involves situations where WebKit memory is spilling to virtual memory which, AFAIK, is not something anyone has spent time optimizing. Unless you're actively working on this problem within WebKit, these emails seem out of scope for webkit-dev. Thanks.
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