[tor-bugs] #4804 [EFF-HTTPS Everywhere]: ram consumption

Wed Jan 11 01:48:11 UTC 2012

#4804: ram consumption
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 Reporter:  federico              |          Owner:  pde     
     Type:  enhancement           |         Status:  accepted
 Priority:  major                 |      Milestone:          
Component:  EFF-HTTPS Everywhere  |        Version:          
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   Points:                        |   Actualpoints:          
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Comment(by pde):

 Revised estimate: we actually only use about 38MB at startup.  Of this,
 about 11MB appears to be free()d memory that gets garbage collected:
 watching for a while, I saw the RSS fall back to about 27MB more than a
 stock Firefox.

 Replacing RegExp objects with a dummy object type seemed to only save
 about 1MB.  Objects like rule_store.rulesetsByID and
 rule_store.rulesetsByName seem to use about 1MB each.

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