Hi all, I've coded this patch that considerably reduces surf memory usage (and some LOCs) by avoiding the creation of a new process each time a new webview is created. The patch is very simple, it just replaces calls to newwindow with calls to a slightly modified newclient. This only applies to "inside" events: from the context menu, clicking urls, etc. You still can exec surf to get a new process running.
All this play well with tabbed. In fact, it was the memory consumption of N opened tabs (say N*M) that motivates me to write the patch (so N*M is now reduced to something about M, or avg(M) or max(M)... anyway an improvement). For example, you go from something like this (4 instances at www.google.com): PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 3559 carlos 20 0 196m 61m 24m S 0.3 3.0 0:01.37 surf 3558 carlos 20 0 196m 57m 24m S 0.0 2.9 0:01.40 surf 3560 carlos 20 0 196m 58m 25m S 0.0 2.9 0:01.40 surf 3561 carlos 20 0 196m 58m 25m S 0.0 2.9 0:01.39 surf to this: 3558 carlos 20 0 238m 79m 27m S 0.3 3.9 0:03.47 surf Of course the improvement will depend on you usage pattern. If you tend to open a number of webviews at the same time the gain will be important. I've not tested it thoroughly so use with care if you use it at all. Best regards -- Carlos
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