NEW 86636
Expose memory usage statistics to web platform
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86636
Summary Expose memory usage statistics to web platform
Tony Gentilcore
Reported 2012-05-16 08:41:54 PDT
This is a cover-bug to track MemoryInfo work. performance.memory and console.memory both provide access to the MemoryInfo interface as follows: > performance.memory MemoryInfo jsHeapSizeLimit: 767557632 totalJSHeapSize: 8244736 usedJSHeapSize: 3065200 Currently access to this information is disabled by default. Chromium allows it to be enabled with the --enable-memory-info command line flag and apparently at least one organization has enabled that flag by default for its users. It is not enabled by default due to privacy considerations. Specifically, exposing memory usage could reveal information about the user across domains (such as whether they are signed-in). That being said, because of how easy it is to leak memory on the web, it would be quite valuable for web apps to be able to monitor memory usage for real users. So it is worth determining whether mitigation strategies such as the one in bug 80444 can make this information safe for the web. - If it can't be made safe: we should rip out the interface and relegate memory usage statistics to the Inspector. - If it can be made safe: we should make those changes, publish a specification (public-web-perf is interested), only expose it at a single point (console or performance), and vendor prefix the interface (webkitMemory).
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Ryosuke Niwa
Comment 1 2016-05-02 22:30:21 PDT
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