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# What questions will you answer with this data?

Attempting to detect which crashes are related to low-memory on macOS.

# Why does Mozilla need to answer these questions? Are there benefits for users? Do we need this information to address product or business requirements? Some example responses:

Because we want to fix crashes.

# List all proposed measurements and indicate the category of data collection for each measurement, using the Firefox data collection categories on the Mozilla wiki.

- Available physical memory at the time of crash (Technical data)
- Available swap memory at the time of crash (Technical data)
- Purgeable physical memory at the time of crash (Technical data)
- Total physical memory (Technical data)

#  How long will this data be collected? Choose one of the following:

Forever, as part of crash monitoring.

# What populations will you measure?

All macOS users (note that Windows users are already measured)

# Which release channels?

All

# Which countries?

All

# Which locales?

All

# If this data collection is default on, what is the opt-out mechanism for users?

Part of crash signatures. We don't change the mechanism for opting in/out.

# Please provide a general description of how you will analyze this data.

Correlating crashes with memory conditions.

# Where do you intend to share the results of your analysis?

As part of the comments and/or tests of Firefox patches fixing crashes.

# Is there a third-party tool (i.e. not Telemetry) that you are proposing to use for this data collection?

Nope, this uses the crash monitor.

Oops, just realized that we forgot to request data-review. Here we go.

## What questions will you answer with this data?

Attempting to detect which crashes are related to low-memory on macOS.

## Why does Mozilla need to answer these questions? Are there benefits for users? Do we need this information to address product or business requirements? Some example responses:

Because we want to fix crashes and ship Fission.

## List all proposed measurements and indicate the category of data collection for each measurement, using the Firefox data collection categories on the Mozilla wiki.

- Available physical memory at the time of crash (Technical data)
- Available swap memory at the time of crash (Technical data)
- Purgeable physical memory at the time of crash (Technical data)
- Total physical memory (Technical data)

##  How long will this data be collected? Choose one of the following:

Forever, as part of crash monitoring.

## What populations will you measure?

All macOS users (note that Windows users are already measured)

## Which release channels?

All

## Which countries?

All

## Which locales?

All

## If this data collection is default on, what is the opt-out mechanism for users?

Part of crash signatures. We don't change the mechanism for opting in/out.

## Please provide a general description of how you will analyze this data.

Correlating crashes with memory conditions.

## Where do you intend to share the results of your analysis?

As part of the comments and/or tests of Firefox patches fixing crashes.

## Is there a third-party tool (i.e. not Telemetry) that you are proposing to use for this data collection?

Nope, this uses the crash monitor.