42511 - Bloat data should include allocations via nsIMemory::Alloc

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 84831

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

scc sez that nsMemory::Alloc allocations do not show up in bloat figures, which 
means that string data (and lots of other data) don't show in the numbers. We 
should really fix this.

Comment 1

[Scott Collins]

In this case `the numbers' being the bloat and leak numbers on Tinderbox.

Comment 2

[Warren Harris]

I hadn't thought this all the way through when I spoke to you about it earlier. 
Doing this would require us to get a lot more clever about how we note object 
sizes. Right now we're just keeping the sizeof(*this) in a hashtable entry, and 
then counting instances. We'd have to accumulate size data instead. We'd also 
have to change the bloat/leak output, and adjust the bloatdiff tool to 
compensate.

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

This bug is targeted at a Mac classic platform/OS, which is no longer supported
by mozilla.org. Please re-target it to another platform/OS if this bug applies
there as well or resolve this bug.

I will resolve this bug as WONTFIX in four weeks if no action has been taken.
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Comment 4

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Fixed by using trace-malloc-based leak stats.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 84831 ***