Re: Process count limit

[Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro igalia com>]

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 4:03 PM, Jérémy Lal <kapouer melix org> wrote:
> 2017-06-15 22:46 GMT+02:00 Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro igalia com>:
> > 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