Chromium -vs- chrome on Linux Mint?

[Stephen Partington]

Well chrome/chromium both use lots of ram and file handlers intentionally.
Pre caching page loads and a few other things. Extra threads so that (in
theory) one page bites it the other process should still be just fine.
On Jun 1, 2015 11:14 PM, "Michael Butash" <michael at butash.net> wrote:

> I'm pretty abusive on my system as I do what I consider well more than
> most with it, but honestly, I don't see it should be an issue with the
> latest i7 proc and loaded with memory, if they build it to scale properly.
> Mine simply works, until it comes unglued, which seems to be more and more
> often, almost at least once a day, usually more.
>
> Weird part is I do limit extensively what plugins and scripts run, exactly
> to limit this, and websites doing nefarious things, this just seems like
> systemically buggy with the browser.  Adblock, scriptsafe are staples,
> which has always sufficed to keep it on a short leash.
>
> Because it does tend to be unstable, and ubuntu to boot, I tend to watch
> htop constantly on a spare monitor (joy of having 5 currently), and will
> see things like pepper-flash kick off, go ape, and slam my system until I
> kill -9 it.  Flash sucks.  Thusly I recently decided to go flash-free, and
> any site still lame enough to use it can bite me.  This helped, but still
> rampantly goes batty.
>
> As mentioned, the worst part is with my setup, with an extensive number of
> tabs as I normally keep open, tends to consume somewhere in the
> neighborhood of 250k file handlers between unix sockets and actual files
> (mostly shared libs).  At first I thought his was a bug, then began doing
> some statistical analysis of the situation, browsers (chrome|chromium) x
> profiles (3x for personal, work and work) x tabs (lots) x libs+sockets each
> (manyyyy).  All I can think is "wow, this is a highly inefficient piece of
> shit".
>
> Then I think back to old firefox circa 2005, single instantiated memory
> space for all tabs being not that cool either, buggy, crashy, but that was
> also under windoze, part of what drove me to linux.  Before bloated window
> managers, compositing, gpu weirdness, etc, it worked 20x better than
> windoze, then chrome came along and blew it away.  At the cost of memory,
> but it never used to be this horribly random and buggy to where memory was
> a small price for hyper usage.
>
> I don't know, perhaps I really am just abusing the system, but it works
> great, until it doesn't.  Lately it just reminds me of the dark days of
> windoze 98/me crashing or needing reboot every few days with not even that
> much abuse.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On 06/01/2015 08:23 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>
>> Michael, Chrome never  crashes on me. I used chromium before and it too
>> never crashed. Maybe I don't do as intensive things as you.
>>
>> (I don't know if 'never' is as accurate as 'very rarely'.
>>
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