On 11/25/2013 12:02 PM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote:> Because one of the
long-term possibilities discussed for solving this
> issue is releasing a 64-bit version of Firefox, I additionally broke
> down the "OOM" crashes into users running a 32-bit version of Windows
> and users running a 64-bit version of Windows:
>
> OOM,win64,15744
> OOM,win32,42097
>
> I did this by checking the "TotalVirtualMemory" annotation in the crash
> report: if it reports 4G of TotalVirtualMemory, then the user has a
> 64-bit Windows, and if it reports either 2G or 3G, the user is running a
> 32-bit Windows. So I do not expect that doing Firefox for win64 will
> help users who are already experiencing memory issues, although it may
> well help new users and users who are running memory-intensive
> applications such as games.
So we're clear, this analysis is of 32bit Firefox builds running on a
64bit Windows OS, right? So the process is still limited to 4GB of
address space. Wouldn't a native 64bit Firefox build have significantly
more address space available to it?
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