I intent to start working immediately on the pref controlled size limit
on SH. I think the HistoryObserver thing can follow soon.
Judson Valeski wrote:
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> Radha Kulkarni wrote:
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>> Session History currently grows unbounded and has occupied the #2 slot
>> on the bloat chart. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62651
>> lists some of the ideas that have been thrown at the table. For 6.5,
>> saving a limited (but configurable) number of entries in SH seems
>> attractive.
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> I've added some comments to the bug.
> 1. should observer memory pressure so when a machine is low on mem,
> history gets notified and can clean up.
> 2. prefs config for max num of entries.
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>> I'm not sure how affects the embedding world.
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> The impact on embedding is significant. unbounded caches quickly blow
> out memory on low memory devices (which many embeddingn devices are).
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> Jud
