From 36d22d82aa202bb199967e9512281e9a53db42c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2024 21:33:14 +0200 Subject: Adding upstream version 115.7.0esr. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- docs/performance/memory/awsy.md | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/performance/memory/awsy.md (limited to 'docs/performance/memory/awsy.md') diff --git a/docs/performance/memory/awsy.md b/docs/performance/memory/awsy.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5026f055aa --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/performance/memory/awsy.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +# Are We Slim Yet (AWSY) + +The Are We Slim Yet project (commonly known as AWSY) for several years +tracked memory usage across builds on the (now defunct) website. +It used the same +infrastructure as +[about:memory](about_colon_memory.md) to measure +memory usage on a predefined snapshot of Alexa top 100 pages known as +tp5. + +Since Firefox transitioned to using multiple processes by default, we +[moved AWSY into the +TaskCluster](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1272113) +infrastructure. This allowed us to run measurements on all branches and +platforms. The results are posted to +[perfherder](https://treeherder.mozilla.org/perf.html) where we can +track regressions automatically. + +As new processes are added to Firefox we want to make sure their memory +usage is also tracked by AWSY. To this end we request that memory +reporting be integrated into any new process before it is enabled on +Nightly. -- cgit v1.2.3