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It'd be interesting to see if one could trim down memory consumption by making Firefox use KSM[0] - on Linux, it's only a single madvise(2) call away. [0]: htt

by c0l0 11y ago

It'd be interesting to see if one could trim down memory consumption by making Firefox use KSM[0] - on Linux, it's only a single madvise(2) call away. [0]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/ksm.txt https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/ksm.txt

swinglock 11y ago
That would be interesting. It's not free though, KSM can use considerable CPU time.
kevincox 11y ago
IIUC most of the shared pages would be common when the process is forked, I doubt there would be enough duplicate content created after the fork to be worth it.