On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Ben Kelly <bke...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Nicholas Nethercote <
> n.netherc...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Now for the reason I raised this: the major downside of using multiple
> > processes is that it increases memory usage. Recent-ish measurements
> showed
> > that for e10s-multi we could probably go up to 4 content processes
> without
> > blowing it out too badly, but 8 would be a major problem.
> >
>
> These measurements are for full content processes.  Many of the processes
> in the above do not need all the chrome script we load in content processes
> today.
>

And I would imagine that things like GMP processes need even less.

It would be good to clarify exactly how much of Gecko each of these
processes actually initializes, and how much each actually needs. There
might be fat to be trimmed.

bholley


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