[building for yacto linux] size of content_shell is huge

[Rahul Patel]

Hi Team,

   I have been playing with content_shell to learn and understand the chromium in details, i had started with v83, but had some issues so started settings up the v90 and i am able to build it finally.

I have a device which has only 2gb of RAM but size of the v90 content_shell is 800MB+ , which is blocking me to run the content_Shell binary on device. i am doing for linux 

1. Is there a way to reduce the size of content_shell for testing ?
   
2. what is the good starting point to investigate it ?

using most of the args.gn flag from here: https://github.com/OSSystems/meta-browser/blob/master/meta-chromium/recipes-browser/chromium/chromium-gn.inc 

Thanks,

 Rahul

[Christian Biesinger]

I haven't gone through that full file but make sure you set these flags:
is_official_build=true
is_debug=false
is_component_build=false

800 MB sounds too big for content shell...

Christian

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[Rahul Patel]

Hi Christian,

  Thanks for sharing these flags, I am already using these flags, but I did the double check but found no reduction. 

i am building for yocto so not sure if args.gn should be different ?