Right, so it is indeed the kernel OOM reaper that's killing processes, as it should. Chromium frontend is doing what it should, in displaying the "dead" message.
What's next is deciding whether the usage of memory itself is a bug. The internal URL chrome://memory-redirect/ will show what's doing what, similar to "ps", if that helps testing. AFAIK, Chromium's memory usage is better than old Firefox, but not as good as (post MemShrink) Firefox. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1096603 Title: Chromium reports "It's dead Jim" on Low RAM machines Status in “chromium-browser” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When running certain tabs, chromium browser eventually reports the above error. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: chromium-browser 22.0.1229.94~r161065-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-21.32-generic 3.5.7.1 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-21-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu9 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Jan 6 15:09:12 2013 Desktop-Session: DESKTOP_SESSION = Lubuntu XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = /etc/xdg/lubuntu/:/etc/xdg/xdg-Lubuntu:/etc/xdg XDG_DATA_DIRS = /etc/xdg/lubuntu:/usr/share/Lubuntu:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/:/usr/share:/usr/share/gdm:/var/lib/menu-xdg DiskUsage: b'Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on\n/dev/vda1 ext4 9.4G 2.6G 6.4G 29% /\nudev devtmpfs 237M 4.0K 237M 1% /dev\ntmpfs tmpfs 99M 712K 98M 1% /run\nnone tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock\nnone tmpfs 246M 132K 246M 1% /run/shm\nnone tmpfs 100M 8.0K 100M 1% /run/user\n' Inodes: b'Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on\n/dev/vda1 608K 139K 470K 23% /\nudev 60K 425 59K 1% /dev\ntmpfs 62K 330 62K 1% /run\nnone 62K 3 62K 1% /run/lock\nnone 62K 4 62K 1% /run/shm\nnone 62K 9 62K 1% /run/user\n' Env: MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-04 (1 days ago) InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: chromium-browser UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) chromium-default: CHROMIUM_FLAGS="" gconf-keys: /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec = b''/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command = b''/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/enabled = b''/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command = b''/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/enabled = b''/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager = b''/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager = b''/desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme = b''/desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme = b'' To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1096603/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
