2-3MB is basically the minimum size. Mike
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Paweł Hajdan Jr. <[email protected]>wrote: > > How big the V8 heap is? I think that it would be very useful to know > how the memory is used inside the extension process. Are there good > tools to do that? I heard about "heap profilers"... > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 17:57, Matt Perry<[email protected]> wrote: > > I suspect a big chunk of the memory is the V8 heap. Each process that > uses > > V8 will need a separate heap. We could experiment with lowering the heap > > size for extensions, if we think extensions will be less script heavy > than > > web pages. > > > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Erik Kay <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> As we add more subprocesses (workers, utilities, extensions, etc.), it > >> would be great if we could reduce the minimum memory that these > processes > >> consume. I know that there was some work done a while back to look at > what > >> was the minimum cost of a new process on Windows given our dll size, > etc. > >> (maruel?), but I'm sure that there's more than can be done for us to > reduce > >> memory usage above this level. > >> Erik > >> > >> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Paweł Hajdan Jr. > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> As extensions are visible in the task manager, it's also possible to > >>> see their memory usage. I was experimenting with some sample > >>> extensions, and the usage seems to be in range 1 MB - 12 MB. Typically > >>> 3-5 MB. > >>> > >>> I wonder if it would be possible to reduce that memory usage. In case > >>> it negatively affects performance, we could have some opt-in way for > >>> extension developers to say "I want my extensions to run as fast as > >>> possible, even with increased memory usage". > >>> > >>> What do you think? > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> >> > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
