1008605 - Make the verbose checkbox live

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: about:memory, defect)

Description

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

When measuring memory from about:memory in Firefox you get a checkbox "verbose". One of the effects of checking this before clicking on "Measure" is that memory values are reported as bytes. Without it they are reported as megabytes to the nearest 10 KB. The equivalent of clicking on Measure for B2G is invoking get_about_memory.py, but there's no "verbose" option there, so there's no way to get memory measurements to the byte.

Can we either have a --verbose argument, please, or else make the "verbose" checkbox on the results page live so that it will expand the tree and rewrite the displayed memory values to be to the byte? Both would be good, but I imagine one is enough. :)

Comment 1

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

Actually if only one is implemented probably making the "verbose" checkbox live is more useful.

Comment 2

[Kyle Huey (Exited; not receiving bugmail, old account, do not use)]

Check verbose and then click load?

Comment 3

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

Doh, right. Still, it would be nice to have checking "verbose" reformat the page immediately, but much less of a priority for me now.

Comment 4

[Nicholas Nethercote [inactive]]

Yeah, the full data is stored in the file and the presentation choice is made at load time.

> Doh, right. Still, it would be nice to have checking "verbose" reformat the
> page immediately, but much less of a priority for me now.

With the current design, there's no way to switch between presentation modes without redoing the measurements. Changing this would be difficult, unfortunately.

Comment 5

[Nicholas Nethercote [inactive]]

WONTFIXing, as per comment 4. Sorry.