[Lubuntu-qa] Chromium eating memory

[Phill Whiteside]

Ooop!

the bug report is at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1096603

Regards,

Phill.

On 6 January 2013 15:28, Phill Whiteside <PhillW at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hi Chad,
>
> mixed news..
>
> BBC news[2] reported "It's dead Jim" (as expected), but the launchpad
> tab[2] also reported "Aw Snap!" This is new, as in the past it has remained
> running. As you suspected, there were entries in dmesg which I have tagged
> onto the bug.
>
> I've raised a bug from within the VM [3] An identical running VM with
> firefox installed and the same two tabs open is still happily running.
> Those two test VM's are at your disposal on my home system if you need me
> to run / check anything else.
>
> Again, thanks for your time on this,
>
> Phill.
>
> 1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
> 2. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1084852
> 3.
> http://www.upubuntu.com/2012/07/conky-2-nice-conky-desklet-for-your.html
>
>
> On 4 January 2013 19:54, Chad MILLER <chad.miller at canonical.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu 03 Jan 2013 06:49:47 PM EST, Phill Whiteside wrote:
>> > We are seeing an issue with Chromium on low RAM systems where we get
>> "It's dead Jim" issues. At first I believed this to be a Chromium memory
>> leak, but it does not affect all web pages [1]. I have tried to report this
>> via [2] which errorred out with 'mal formed request', trying to use the
>> 'learn more' and trying to report an error in the failed window also
>> resulted in the same. Even more odd (to me) was that leaving the tabs open
>> ended up in them giving the "It's dead Jim" error on the tab. Just as a
>> check in my own logic, I opened up a launchpad bug tab for a bug. This tab,
>> over several days & resets of other tabs that had to be reset never once
>> failed.
>> >
>> > Apologies for the long introduction. Is there anything I can add to the
>> system to try and get some details for you guys to work off? gdb I have
>> been intimated at, is not really suited for a memory leak; but as I don't
>> think it is a memory leak and Chromium still runs with the tabs still
>> 'alive' would it be of use to use gdb to trace back an PiD?
>> >
>> > Assuming you don't have a machine that you can pull memory chips out
>> of, until you have 512Mb of RAM (The guys with these machines are the ones
>> who 1st reported it)..
>> >
>> > 1. Create a VM with 512 Mb RAM
>> > 2. Install Lubuntu (I suggest using alternate at such low RAM) [3] -
>> I've also tried this with Raring
>> > 3. Open a couple of tabs, e.g. BBC News [4] and a bug report [5] -
>> Well, it was a chromium bug :)
>> > 4. Open a couple of other tabs for sites you know to be stable -
>> Remember, you are on a low-RAM system, nothing too exotic!
>> > 5. Wait.
>> > 6. Tabs will report "It's dead Jim".. - This may take several hours -
>> Tab opened with [5] will stay working.
>> >
>> > Us testers are stuck to try to progress and any help you can give to
>> help log the bug correctly in order that it can be progressed is needed.
>> I've tried installing the dev chromium instead of the 'new' chromium in the
>> repos, the effect is the same.
>>
>>
>> Hi Phill, all.
>>
>> I assume it's the out-of-memory process reaper in the kernel, at work
>> here killing process that backs the tab you see.  Can you confirm
>> something interesting in "dmesg" output?
>>
>> I can imagine that a lazily-written web site can have Javascript code
>> that ever grows its memory usage.  I'm keen to know whether the same
>> machine can reproduce this crash on a mundane web site that doesn't
>> have JS events firing off RPC calls and/or updating the DOM.  If it
>> does crash anyway, this gets interesting.
>>
>> Answering those two questions would help me categorize this bug-report
>> pretty easily.  Let's open a normal bug on Launchpad to track this for
>> now.
>>
>> - chad
>>
>>
>
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