[chromium-dev] Re: [Memory] Observations on memory usage in flickr

2009-10-15 Thread Peter Kasting
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Jens Alfke s...@google.com 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

[chromium-dev] Re: [Memory] Observations on memory usage in flickr

2009-10-15 Thread James Robinson
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Jens Alfke s...@google.com wrote: I spent some time this morning looking at Chrome's memory usage (on OS X 10.5.8) while viewing flickr.com. First I simply started at my photo- stream page and hit Reload over and over. Next I tried going through all of my

[chromium-dev] Re: [Memory] Observations on memory usage in flickr

2009-10-15 Thread Mike Belshe
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Jens Alfke s...@google.com wrote: I spent some time this morning looking at Chrome's memory usage (on OS X 10.5.8) while viewing flickr.com. First I simply started at my photo- stream page and hit Reload over and over. Next I tried going through all of my

[chromium-dev] Re: [Memory] Observations on memory usage in flickr

2009-10-15 Thread Peter Kasting
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Mike Belshe mbel...@google.com wrote: • We should call V8::IdleNotification in situations other than a hidden tab. A long-lived tab might go for quite a while without being hidden in this way: the user might activate another app, hide Chrome itself, or just