Open Bug 1597383 Opened 5 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Create a new overhead mechanism for the minimal profiler popup

Categories

(DevTools :: Performance Tools (Profiler/Timeline), enhancement, P2)

enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: gregtatum, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

The new profiler popup has a new overhead mechanism which is much lighter, with only a few different levels of overhead. This bug tracks the work to compute it on both the popup and on the about:profiling page.

While we're at it, we should also increase the overhead for Windows sampling times.

See: https://github.com/firefox-devtools/Gecko-Profiler-Addon/issues/83

Markus wrote:

Drastically increase displayed overhead when going below 1ms on Windows
On Windows we now use a busy-loop to implement sub-1ms waits. This loop eats one core per profiled process and has very high overhead. We should reflect that overhead in the UI.

Blocks: 1566920
No longer blocks: about-profiling
Severity: normal → S3
Severity: normal → S3
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