Open Bug 819768 (darkdarkmatter) Opened 12 years ago Updated 2 years ago

[meta] Track memory used by anonymous mmap'ed pages

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(Core :: General, defect)

defect

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(Reporter: justin.lebar+bug, Unassigned)

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(Depends on 2 open bugs)

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(Keywords: meta)

In general every time we look for some type of bad memory usage in Gecko, we find it somewhere. One thing we don't do a good job of tracking right now is memory allocated by mmap that doesn't live on the heap and doesn't live in JS. I don't know how much such memory there is, but I expect it's not zero per the rule above. I have a few orthogonal ideas of how to move forward here; I'll file them as blocking this bug.
Depends on: 819769
Summary: [meta] Track memory used by mmap'ed pages → [meta] Track memory used by anonymous mmap'ed pages
Depends on: 819771
Good idea! But note that once we've identified the dark dark matter, it'll then just be dark matter, albeit of kind "mapped-unclassifed" rather than "heap-unclassified" :)
Depends on: 828886
Keywords: meta
Depends on: 742028
Severity: normal → S3
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