[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 180861] New: [GTK][WPE] Enable WebProcess memory monitor

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180861

            Bug ID: 180861
           Summary: [GTK][WPE] Enable WebProcess memory monitor
           Product: WebKit
           Version: WebKit Nightly Build
          Hardware: Unspecified
                OS: Unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: Gtk
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: WebKit2
          Assignee: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
          Reporter: cgarcia at igalia.com
                CC: bugs-noreply at webkitgtk.org

For some reason this is only enabled in mac. We want to enable it also in GTK and WPE ports. This runs every 30 seconds to release memory or even kill the process if necessary. Carlos López has realized that in some applications using video tags, the memory grows a lot and it's never released. It seems it's not memory leaked, but simply large memory allocations (I guess it's gst allocating video frames) that make the heap grow. The memory pressure calls malloc_trim that releases all that memory keeping the web process footprint stable. Since enabling this can make the web process to be killed, we need to expose the web process termination reason in the API. I'll file another bug for this.

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