DMD is our tool for improving Firefox’s memory reporting.\u00a0 It helps identify where new memory reporters need to be added in order to reduce the “heap-unclassified” value in about:memory.<\/p>\n
DMD has always worked well on Linux, and moderately well on Mac (it is crashy for some people).\u00a0 And it works on Android and B2G.\u00a0 But it has never worked on Windows.<\/p>\n
So I’m happy to report that DMD now does work on Windows<\/a>, thanks to the excellent efforts of Catalin Iacob.\u00a0 If you’re on Windows and you’ve been seeing high “heap-unclassified” values, and you’re able to build Firefox yourself, please give DMD a try<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DMD is our tool for improving Firefox’s memory reporting.\u00a0 It helps identify where new memory reporters need to be added in order to reduce the “heap-unclassified” value in about:memory. DMD has always worked well on Linux, and moderately well on Mac (it is crashy for some people).\u00a0 And it works on Android and B2G.\u00a0 But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4550,4557,30,4546],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}