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Re: Chromium eating memory

 

Hi Lars,

I have the 13.04 AMD64 Lubuntu as an available iso to install. Is this
worth testing on, or do you prefer me to use a different architect?

Regards,

Phill.


On 28 December 2012 20:18, Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 12/28/2012 10:01 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> > Hi Lars,
> >
> > Can you let me know which version of Lubuntu and Chromium you are using?
> > I'll set up a small VM and fire up... say... BBCNews [1], Ubuntu
> Forum[2],
> > a Bug report [3] and leave them to run and see how it gets on. If all is
> > well after 24 hours, I'll add in a couple of extra web-pages that you
> think
> > may be causing issues.
> >
> > The BBC site does have some flash / shockwave stuff on it. I've found
> > issues with the likes of FaceBook suddenly running away with 100% CPU
> usage
> > so will not start off with that one.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Phill
> > 1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
> > 2. http://ubuntuforums.org/
> > 3.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1086613
>
> Hi, Phill,
>
> Thanks.
>
> It's chromium "Version 22.0.1229.94 Built on Ubuntu 12.10, running on
> Ubuntu 13.04 (161065)" on Lubuntu 13.04  I don't use any Flash, ever.
> I'm not sure that any particular page by itself causes the trouble it
> seems to be more general to Chromium.  It's not something that comes on
> quickly, it's just that over the course of the day, use of Chromium
> leads to more and more swap being used until thrashing starts.
>
> A little bit related to this is the failure of some apps (konversation
> and sometimes thunderbird) to follow system preferences and launch
> http/https URLs in Firefox.  Apps like konversation launch everything in
> Chromium regardless of the system settings and apps like thunderbird
> launch only https in Chromium and obey the system settings for http.
>
> Regards
> /Lars
>
>
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