[ubuntu-uk] Chromium - Memory Hog and Crashing

[Jon Farmer]

Hi

One of my machines affected by this has 8Gb RAM. How much is not enough?

Regards

Jon
On 7 Jun 2013 22:27, "Phill Whiteside" <PhillW at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 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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