On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 2:12 AM, Bill McCloskey <wmcclos...@mozilla.com> wrote:
>
> Regarding process-per-core or process-per-domain or whatever, I just want
> to point out that responsiveness will improve even beyond process-per-core.

You're probably right, but as you increase the number of processes the
responsiveness improvements will hit diminishing returns at some point
whereas the memory usage will likely scale linearly.

> So I do think we're going to want more than just 4 or 8 content processes.
> We're just going to have to work really hard on the memory usage. I've
> noticed a lot of waste for really small content processes. One of my
> content processes (for mxr) looks like this right now: explicit 50MB,
> heap-overhead 19MB, js-non-window 14MB, heap-unclassified 12MB. The actual
> window is only 0.89 MB.

"resident-unique" (only available on Linux, alas) is probably the most
interesting measurement in this case.

Nick
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