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Gemini and the promise of a small browser

skyjake skyjake at dengine.net

Mon Jan 4 19:48:51 GMT 2021

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On 4. Jan 2021, at 18:07, Stephane Bortzmeyer <stephane at sources.org> wrote:

Lagrange is nice but why does it use so much memory?

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND

stephane 20323 2.8 37.0 1215832 1146444 ? Sl 17:01 0:06 lagrange

stephane 3292 2.7 6.8 738116 211084 ? Sl 08:36 13:57 /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr -contentproc -childID 2 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 1 -prefMapSize 232533 -parentBuildID 20201207224150 -appdir /usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser 3147 true tab

There is certainly room for improvement in the memory use department.

Possible reasons:

Bugs. I wouldn't rule out a memory leak or too lazily freed buffers somewhere.* Aggressive buffering of visible content. Copies of the visible regions of the page and sidebars (with 50% extra) are kept in memory for quick redrawing.* Custom text rendering. All the fonts are loaded to memory (19 MB of TTF data), and furthermore there is quite a large cache of used glyphs for quickly drawing them.* The navigation cache is kept in memory, including full contents of gemtext pages.* Something I've overlooked? I'll investigate...

--jaakko