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Firefox extension to chase the memory usage and garbage collector activity
https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Automation_Services/Projects/Addons/MemChaser
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Don't understand some term in the GC log while using memchaser #178

Closed EvanHon closed 11 years ago

EvanHon commented 11 years ago

I am reading the GC&CC logs generated by memchaser and wanna make a tool to visualize these data, but I can't understand some of the terms, such as RCed, Slice,scc_sweep_total and mmu_20ms. Would you please do some explanation for these ? Thanks!

davehunt commented 11 years ago

This might help https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/SpiderMonkey/Internals/GC/Statistics_API

We should probably add a link to this in the README, and maybe also add a 'Help' menu item in the widget menu. What do you think @whimboo?

whimboo commented 11 years ago

Everything which helps to make it better understandable should be possible, yes. :)

EvanHon commented 11 years ago

@davehunt Thanks, that's really help me a lot!

davehunt commented 11 years ago

@EvanHon great! I've submitted pull #179 to add these details to the README, and raised issue #180 to add a help item to the menu.

whimboo commented 11 years ago

This hasn't been landed yet.

davehunt commented 11 years ago

Sure, I wasn't intending on linking the pull to this issue, and @EvanHon's problem is solve, which is why I closed this.

davehunt commented 11 years ago

Fixed in c8f6171ef65552a82ccc4a03ae9957ffa5c81d06