Re: Memory use in 2.22 with WebKitGTK 2.14

[Michael Gratton <mike vee net>]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 10:40 PM, Michael Catanzaro 
<mcatanzaro igalia com> wrote:
> That's about twice what I'm seeing here, but I think the memory
> increase is indeed expected in 2.14 due to the switch to always-on
> accelerated compositing. You can verify by re-rerunning your 
> experiment
> with WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1.

Re-running with compositing disabled does indeed reduce the memory use 
by a factor of almost 4: to 2GB total. Individual web processes are now 
being reported to use about ~1/5 of of the memory in g-s-m.

I wonder if my high-DPI display is causing the extra overhead when it 
is enabled compared to what you are seeing?

> The WebKitGTK+ mailing list would be a better place for this
> discussion; there might already be plans to improve this.

Sure looks like it, I'll take it over there.

Cheers,
//Mike

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