On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote:

> • Switching to another tab in the same window is the only way to get
> heap usage down significantly (by calling V8's IdleNotification) and
> even then it takes over a minute of occasional idle-time GC to have a
> significant effect.
>

Once I get my MemoryPurger functionality checked in, I'd like you to try it
and see if it can successfully purge this memory.  It loops calling
IdleNotification() until that returns true.

• Even hiding the tab doesn't bring memory usage down as much. The
> 'vmmap' tool shows that there's a lot of space allocated to
> CoreGraphics backing stores, much more than in the single-page case
> (like 13MB vs 1MB.) I'm not sure if this is for the images on the
> pages, or snapshots of the pages themselves for the back/forward
> cache. Safari 4 on Mac has similar behavior.
>

My tool also dumps backing stores.

PK

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