[webkit-dev] WebKit memory management?

[Ariya Hidayat]

> As paul had mentioned, typically on an embedded platform you would want the
> webkit library to work in a bounded memory (<10Mb) and signal an OOM
> condition if it crosses that and recover gracefully(either cleanup
> caches/history, stop loading current page, restart the app if nothing
> possible) without impacting the system. you dont want this to happen too
> often in production build, but how can you guarantee with current
> implementation?

Though I kind of agree that a custom allocator is the first step towards this, 
I guess graceful handling of memory problem would require much more bigger 
and massive changes in the code.

I have no experience doing such thing, but looking at the current state of 
WebKit code, I reckon the effort would not be trivial.



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Ariya Hidayat (ariya.hidayat at trolltech.com)
Software Engineer, Trolltech (a Nokia company)