[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 164052] [GTK] Since the memory pressure relief has been activated, my disk has a high usage and the desktop stalls

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164052

--- Comment #2 from Debarshi Ray <rishi.is at lostca.se> ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> I think that it would be good, then, to have some public signal notifying
> that WK is getting out of memory and the pressure relief is not helping.
> 
> That way, apps that are using WK will be able to warn the user about it.
> 
> For example, with Ephy, it could be displayed a warning in the fashion:
> 
> "Ephy is running out of memory. Please, close some tabs or other programs"

The same workload / number of tabs that used to work quite well without the memory pressure relief is now swapping. So I doubt WK is really running out of memory.

For what it is worth, I have 8GB of physical RAM.

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