[ubuntu-uk] Chromium - Memory Hog and Crashing

[Phill Whiteside]

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 <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7 June 2013 16:27, Jon Farmer <jon at 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?
>
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