Adding a command line flag to specify renderer process limit

content/public/browser/render_process_host.h

Index: content/public/browser/render_process_host.h
diff --git a/content/public/browser/render_process_host.h b/content/public/browser/render_process_host.h
index 81a363640f6dd6bd5a58c8239ba2c81ec0492670..d10bb8d736741b3734d5f4dafc3350a002bc7316 100644
--- a/content/public/browser/render_process_host.h
+++ b/content/public/browser/render_process_host.h
@@ -225,9 +225,20 @@ class CONTENT_EXPORT RenderProcessHost : public IPC::Message::Sender,
       content::BrowserContext* browser_context, const GURL& site_url);
 
   // Overrides the default heuristic for limiting the max renderer process
-  // count.  This is useful for unit testing process limit behaviors.
+  // count.  This is useful for unit testing process limit behaviors.  It is
+  // also used to allow a command line parameter to configure the max number of
+  // renderer processes and should only be called once during startup.
   // A value of zero means to use the default heuristic.
-  static void SetMaxRendererProcessCountForTest(size_t count);
+  static void SetMaxRendererProcessCount(size_t count);
+
+  // Returns the current max number of renderer processes used by the content
+  // module.
+  static size_t GetMaxRendererProcessCount();
+
+ private:
+  // Stores the maximum number of renderer processes the content module can
+  // create.
+  static size_t max_renderer_count_override_;

[jam, 2012/02/07 20:27:29]

for the content api we avoid putting statics in the interface. instead keep the
static function as above, but just have it use a static in the
render_process_host_impl.cc file

[nasko, 2012/02/07 21:29:50]

Done.

 };
 
 }  // namespace content.