Re: Process count limit

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 4:03 PM, Jérémy Lal <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 2017-06-15 22:46 GMT+02:00 Michael Catanzaro <[email protected]>:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I was reading 
>> https://medium.com/mozilla-tech/the-search-for-the-goldilocks-browser-and-why-firefox-may-be-just-right-for-you-1f520506aa35
>> 
>> Currently we have a problem with Epiphany using too much memory when 
>> lots of tabs are open, since -- with a few exceptions -- each tab 
>> runs in its own web process. This is in contrast to Chrome, in which 
>> each website shares the same web process.
>> 
>> I kinda think Chrome's approach is the best, but we don't have 
>> infrastructure to implement that right now. We do have 
>> infrastructure to set a Firefox-style process count limit. Setting 
>> the limit to four processes would be a simple GSettings change.
>> 
>> Advantage: significant memory use reduction when many tabs are open
>> 
>> Disadvantage: a single crashing tab will crash a quarter of your 
>> tabs, instead of only itself
>> 
>> Thoughts?
> 
> If it's a max of four processes by separate epiphany window, that 
> would just be perfect.
> 
> Jérémy

Hm, the limit would be independent of the number of windows 
unfortunately. That would be difficult to change. You could get around 
it by using 'epiphany -p' on the command line to get a separate 
instance, or by using incognito mode ('epiphany -i').

Michael

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