Lower limit for external allocation and improve tracing.

src/heap.cc

 // Copyright 2012 the V8 project authors. All rights reserved.
 // Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 // modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
 // met:
 //
 //     * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
 //       notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
 //     * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above
 //       copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
 //       disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided
@@ skipping 6602 matching lines @@
   // generation size.
   if (max_executable_size_ > max_old_generation_size_) {
     max_executable_size_ = max_old_generation_size_;
   }
 
   // The new space size must be a power of two to support single-bit testing
   // for containment.
   max_semispace_size_ = RoundUpToPowerOf2(max_semispace_size_);
   reserved_semispace_size_ = RoundUpToPowerOf2(reserved_semispace_size_);
   initial_semispace_size_ = Min(initial_semispace_size_, max_semispace_size_);
-  external_allocation_limit_ = 16 * max_semispace_size_;
+
+  // The external allocation limit should be below 256 MB on all architectures
+  // to avoid unnecessary low memory notifications, as that is the threshold
+  // for some embedders.
+  external_allocation_limit_ = 12 * max_semispace_size_;
+  ASSERT(external_allocation_limit_ <= 256 * MB);
 
   // The old generation is paged and needs at least one page for each space.
   int paged_space_count = LAST_PAGED_SPACE - FIRST_PAGED_SPACE + 1;
   max_old_generation_size_ = Max(static_cast<intptr_t>(paged_space_count *
                                                        Page::kPageSize),
                                  RoundUp(max_old_generation_size_,
                                          Page::kPageSize));
 
   configured_ = true;
   return true;
@@ skipping 1436 matching lines @@
   if (FLAG_parallel_recompilation) {
     heap_->relocation_mutex_->Lock();
 #ifdef DEBUG
     heap_->relocation_mutex_locked_by_optimizer_thread_ =
         heap_->isolate()->optimizing_compiler_thread()->IsOptimizerThread();
 #endif  // DEBUG
   }
 }
 
 } }  // namespace v8::internal