> On 27 Jun 2019, at 08:25, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macie...@intel.com> wrote: > > On Wednesday, 26 June 2019 18:47:32 PDT Lars Knoll wrote: >> Yes, Webengine uses some memory. But is that really a problem on developer >> machines? > > Yes. I have 16 GB of RAM and 16 GB of swap. Sometimes Linux fails to suspend > to disk unless I quit either Creator, Firefox or Chromium. Free memory isn't > completely the issue. Even with 6 GB free (after re-adding buffers/cache) and > 10 GB swap free, the suspend can fail.
I don’t buy this.Qt Webengine (one page) takes let’s say worst case 150M (I would believe it’s quite a bit less). That’s less than 1% of your available RAM. The reason the browser is an issue is maybe because many developers tend to have hundreds of tabs open. > > Another issue is starting a VM. There are many things in our corporate > network > that require a Windows, plus of course doing testing with MSVC. The moment > you > have a 4GB+ VM running, Creator, Firefox, Chromium and KMail[*], it adds up. > > So, yes, even on a developer's machine we shouldn't use too much. > > [*] KMail already starts a QtWebEngineProcess, but the main process is right > now consuming 950 MB of heap. The complain to the KMail developers :) Cheers, Lars _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
