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Re: Chromium eating memory

 

> 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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> 
On 12/28/2012 11:05 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:> 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.

AMD64 or AMD64+mac is the one I'm using.  I installed from scratch a few
weeks ago and have been updating via apt since then.

Regards,
/Lars


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