[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 219689] [WPE][GTK] Should enable WebProcessCache

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219689

--- Comment #4 from Chris Dumez <cdumez at apple.com> ---
(In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #3)
> (In reply to Chris Dumez from comment #1)
> > If you have Process-Swap-On-Navigation (PSON) enabled, then I think you'd
> > definitely want the process cache too. Note that Apple only enables the
> > process-cache on desktop (not mobile) due to memory constraints.
> 
> Currently we have a chassis type check that could be used for this, but it
> doesn't work reliably due to bug #218122, and is currently only used to set
> a mobile user agent header.
> 
> It would probably make more sense to enable or disable the cache based on
> total available RAM, rather than checking form factor, since there's not
> really any difference between a mobile phone with 3 GB RAM (Librem 5) and a
> desktop with 3 GB RAM. The performance hit if you run out of RAM is going to
> be bad either way.

Yes, Apple port listen to memory pressure warnings and kill those cached processes as necessary.

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