Re: Reducing NSS's allocation rate

2014-11-10 Thread Nicholas Nethercote
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Brian Smith wrote: >> >> I filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1095272 about >> this. I've written several patches that fix problems, one of which has >> r+ and is awaiting checkin; check the dependent bugs. > > In your analysis, it would be better t

Re: Reducing NSS's allocation rate

2014-11-10 Thread Brian Smith
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > I've been doing some heap allocation profiling and found that during > basic usage NSS accounts for 1/3 of all of Firefox's cumulative (*not* > live) heap allocations. We're talking gigabytes of allocations in > short browsing sessions.

Re: Reducing NSS's allocation rate

2014-11-10 Thread Julien Pierre
Personally, I would like to encourage your efforts. If you are able to move many of these allocations from heap-based with locks, to something stack-based instead, this will improve NSS server performance tremendously. I would be surprised if it was a significant boost to client apps like Firef

Re: Reducing NSS's allocation rate

2014-11-10 Thread Ryan Sleevi
On Mon, November 10, 2014 6:51 pm, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > Hi, > > I've been doing some heap allocation profiling and found that during > basic usage NSS accounts for 1/3 of all of Firefox's cumulative (*not* > live) heap allocations. We're talking gigabytes of allocations in > short brow

Reducing NSS's allocation rate

2014-11-10 Thread Nicholas Nethercote
Hi, I've been doing some heap allocation profiling and found that during basic usage NSS accounts for 1/3 of all of Firefox's cumulative (*not* live) heap allocations. We're talking gigabytes of allocations in short browsing sessions. That is *insane*. I filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bu

Re: Road to RC4-free web (the case for YouTube without RC4)

2014-11-10 Thread Hubert Kario
On Saturday 08 November 2014 10:29:06 Kosuke Kaizuka wrote: > On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 01:35:08 +0900, Kosuke Kaizuka wrote:> On Wed, 22 > > Oct 2014 00:59:53 -0700, Brian Smith wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Hubert Kario wrote: > >>> The number of sites that prefer RC4 while still supp