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Mozilla Footprint Projects
Memory Usage
- Memory Usage Smoke Test Results
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Served fresh daily, a tracking system that charts overall
virtual memory usage, resident set size growth and leak rates.
Note that these graphs track memory usage of the embedding
harness, not the full-blown Mozilla browser.
Historical Process Growth Rate
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Historical VM Usage
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Today's LTOG Memory Usage
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- Using SpaceTrace to Inspect Footprint Presentation
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Instruction on how to use SpaceTrace to analyze footpirnt data.
- Codesighs, a Code and Data size monitoring tool
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Instruction on how to use Codesighs to determine code and data size.
- Using trace-malloc to Measure Live Bloat
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A brief describing how to use trace-malloc's facilities to
measure ``live objects''.
- How to debug memory leaks/refcnt leaks
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This document describes tools that are built into Mozilla that
can be used to diagnose memory leaks, especially, leaks that
occur due to reference counting issues.
- XPCOM Leak Tutorial
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A tutorial that describes in detail how to use the above toolset.
- Memory Usage Patterns
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Some random thoughts and human observations about mozilla memory usage.
- OSX (10.1) memory analysis
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Gross memory usage on Mac OSX collected using
top.
- Interactive leak tests
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A set of interactive tests that search for leaks.
- SGI Memo on usability and memory usage.
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Read this and think about what you've done for footprint today.
Toolchain Issues
- Allocators
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A comparison of some common memory allocators.
- frankengcc
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A modified version of
gcc-2.95.2 that builds a
binary that uses less memory at runtime.
Task Lists
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Footprint Bugs
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A list of all Bugzilla bugs with the
footprint keyword.
- Current High Priority Tasks
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This was current at one point. It's not really current anymore.
- Old Grab Bag Task List
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This was current at some point before the previous list; it's
now really out of date.