Yeah, I just took a poke at this, it seems that

zygote
  \ browser
  \ renderer
  \ renderer ...

Is there a design document or anything somewhere?

Also, did we get an measurements on tab startup performance, memory
sharing, etc?

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Lei Zhang<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Does this mean the zygote manager process is the parent process for
> the browser process and all renderer processes? Whereas before the
> browser process was the parent to all renderer processes.
>
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Dan Kegel<[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=17909 enabled
>> zygote mode on Linux by default.  This changes how processes
>> work on Linux; the initial process becomes a fork server,
>> and holds open file descriptors for the .pak files.
>> This lets us continue running even if the app is
>> updated or uninstalled while we're running.  The
>> next time you restart, the new files will take effect.
>>
>> If for some reason (say, you don't like the fact that the
>> main process is now this funky fork server) you want to
>> go back to how things were before temporarily,
>> you can disable zygote mode by doing
>>  export DISABLE_ZYGOTE_MANAGER=x
>> before running.
>>
>> The valgrind ui_test bots are currently greener than they should
>> be, possibly because zygote mode is interfering with
>> how I set ui_test mode up under valgrind.  I'll have a
>> look at that tomorrow.
>>
>> >
>>
>
> >
>

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