[ubuntu-uk] Chromium - Memory Hog and Crashing

[alan c]

On 07/06/13 17:19, Simon Greenwood wrote:
> On 7 June 2013 16:27, Jon Farmer <jon at 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....

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alan cocks