[ubuntu-uk] Chromium - Memory Hog and Crashing
Hi I am getting daily freezes and crashes of Chromium on both Ubuntu and Lubuntu machines. Sometimes it says it ran out of memory on a 8G ram machine with no other applications running or other times just sends the load average up to silly numbers and thrashes the disk. Anyone else seeing this or know how to fix it? Regards Jon Jon Farmer Tel 07795 118140 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chromium - Memory Hog and Crashing
On 7 June 2013 16:27, Jon Farmer j...@bctech.co.uk wrote: Hi I am getting daily freezes and crashes of Chromium on both Ubuntu and Lubuntu machines. Sometimes it says it ran out of memory on a 8G ram machine with no other applications running or other times just sends the load average up to silly numbers and thrashes the disk. Anyone else seeing this or know how to fix it? I have had similar issues with Chromium in the past and switched to Chrome which seems more stable and less memory hungry but I haven't found a lasting solution to it. One of the issues is that Chrome opens a session for each tab or window which will vary in real and virtual memory use but can easily go over a Gb of real memory depending on the complexity of the page or application - Gmail always hovers around 950Kb on my system for example and with 10 tabs open it's using about 5Gb on my laptop. You can see your usage by looking at Tools | Task Manager in the Chrome menu. There is an extension called The Great Suspender that I've just found and might use that claims to manage memory usage more efficiently, suspending idle pages manually or automatically after a period of time. Simon -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood TBA are particularly glib -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chromium - Memory Hog and Crashing
On 07/06/13 17:19, Simon Greenwood wrote: On 7 June 2013 16:27, Jon Farmer j...@bctech.co.uk wrote: Hi I am getting daily freezes and crashes of Chromium on both Ubuntu and Lubuntu machines. Sometimes it says it ran out of memory on a 8G ram machine with no other applications running or other times just sends the load average up to silly numbers and thrashes the disk. Anyone else seeing this or know how to fix it? I have had similar issues with Chromium in the past and switched to Chrome which seems more stable and less memory hungry but I haven't found a lasting solution to it. One of the issues is that Chrome opens a session for each tab or window which will vary in real and virtual memory use but can easily go over a Gb of real memory depending on the complexity of the page or application - Gmail always hovers around 950Kb on my system for example and with 10 tabs open it's using about 5Gb on my laptop. You can see your usage by looking at Tools | Task Manager in the Chrome menu. There is an extension called The Great Suspender that I've just found and might use that claims to manage memory usage more efficiently, suspending idle pages manually or automatically after a period of time. I have found crashes for certain conditions when using Mega (kim dotcom etc which I particularly like for the encryption by default). I can not say it is from memory use, however, looking at the apparent memory use, I got the novice impression that memory was not being handled well. And then it would crash -- alan cocks -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chromium - Memory Hog and Crashing
On 7 June 2013 16:27, Jon Farmer j...@bctech.co.uk wrote: I am getting daily freezes and crashes of Chromium on both Ubuntu and Lubuntu machines. Sometimes it says it ran out of memory on a 8G ram machine with no other applications running or other times just sends the load average up to silly numbers and thrashes the disk. Anyone else seeing this or know how to fix it? A fairly obvious troubleshooting step but one that you might be reluctant to take... Does Chrome do it? -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chromium - Memory Hog and Crashing
There is a known bug for low-ram machines https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1096603 But I've not hit this with my machine (4GB RAM) with multiple tabs open, although shockwave can eat CPU time at a silly rate if it gets upset. (See comment #4 from Chad Miller). Last update I had from Chad (canonical guy who looks after Chromium in the standard repos) was that he was going to try to get chromium v27 to build for a 32 bit machine (v25 was the last that could successfully do so). I use the dev version of Chromium from alex at https://launchpad.net/~a-v-shkop/+archive/chromium-dev I've chatted with him several times in the past and he a decent guy. Lubuntu are seriously considering switching back to firefox now that it has been on the low-fat diet and handles low ram machines better and that we want to include ORCA usability come 14.04. Regards, Phill. On 7 June 2013 18:52, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 June 2013 16:27, Jon Farmer j...@bctech.co.uk wrote: I am getting daily freezes and crashes of Chromium on both Ubuntu and Lubuntu machines. Sometimes it says it ran out of memory on a 8G ram machine with no other applications running or other times just sends the load average up to silly numbers and thrashes the disk. Anyone else seeing this or know how to fix it? A fairly obvious troubleshooting step but one that you might be reluctant to take... Does Chrome do it? -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
