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The latter doesn't really solve the problem. Folks are still going to see that Firefox is using a lot of memory, even if the OS is now more inclined to swap out
by ootachi 15y ago
The latter doesn't really solve the problem. Folks are still going to see that Firefox is using a lot of memory, even if the OS is now more inclined to swap out pages that are less important.
- jbert 15y agoI think it solves the technical problem, I agree that there is an potentially an issue of perception. (Note that the OS won't swap these pages, it will discard them under memory pressure). (Although an argument could be made that any the OS need not account pages which a process has marked as DONTNEED as "belonging" to that process). In as much as a page does "belong" to a process, anyway.