Performance/Memory

Memory numbers to look out for

• Windows XP

- no reliable numbers -

• Windows Vista, in Task Manager:

Commit size

• Mac OS X
  • Run "top" in Terminal.app, look out for numbers:

RPRVT

• Linux

RSS (Resident Set Size)

Blog posts

• Firefox 3 Memory Usage
  • Author: Stuart Parmenter
  • http://blog.pavlov.net/2008/03/11/firefox-3-memory-usage/

• Leaks? Memory? We never forgot about you
  • Author: Stuart Parmenter
  • http://blog.pavlov.net/2007/11/14/leaks-memory-we-never-forgot-about-you/

• Less fragmentation coming in Firefox 3
  • Author: Stuart Parmenter
  • http://blog.pavlov.net/2007/11/15/less-fragmentation-coming-in-firefox-3/

• Firefox memory usage and memory leak news
  • Author: Jesse Ruderman
  • http://www.squarefree.com/2007/09/20/firefox-memory-usage-and-memory-leak-news/

Dashboard - 1.9 versus 1.8 Performance

• Tp Load Time average
• Ts Page Start time average
• Tp Memory footprint (working set)
• Tp Memory footprint (private bytes)

Performance tracking bugs

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397945
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397946
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397947
• keyword "footprint"
  • need good link
• keyword "mlk"
  • need good link