nacl_helper

[Michael Butash]

I'd bet you're hitting swap more than the gpu...  Chrome uses an 
absolute crap ton of memory - how I work, which is usually 3 profiles 
logged in, own extensions per profile, each with 6-24 tabs each, I'll 
easily consume 10-12gb of memory.  Literally why I put 32gb in mine a 
few rebuilds ago and never looked back.

I run gkrellm in the side all the time, so I can always see what is 
pegging.  Watch your hard disks if the i/o is pegging, top|htop should 
show you your swap usage too.

What is really odd is for years there seems to be profile data that is 
corrupted on my primary personal gmail account that as soon as I sync 
the data to the browser, it becomes unstable.  Even google.com searches 
will crash chrome, but so will things like a file download, will throw 
me back to the desktop quicker than anything.  When it crashes with an 
"opps" page, I can go to another browser window on another profile, like 
my work one, and it works just dandy.  If I create a new profile and 
import everything manually, it works - sync chrome with online, and 
instant bag-o-crap.

I've never found a solution to this, aside from just use firefox or get 
no benefit of their sync functions.  :(

-mb


On 03/16/2015 01:06 PM, Kevin Fries wrote:
>
> I would like to get a clarification on this because Chrome and 
> Chromium both seem to be killing my poor old netbook.  I have an 
> original System76 Starling.  It has been a trooper, best laptop I ever 
> owned (and no, Carl did not pay me for that).  I was having issues 
> with the Ubuntu that had been upgraded a dozen times, so I decided a 
> reset was needed.  Since all my other machines are Arch, I decided to 
> put that on there. The netbook runs GREAT, as long as I don't try to 
> run Chrom* on it.  Then the systems goes completely non-responsive.  I 
> switched to another console (ctrl-alt-F2) and ran a top.  Both 
> browsers were the same 10k processes taking all my CPU.  Then I would 
> notice the Core Dump.  I turned off the dump allowing it to just 
> fail... this seemed to make things worse... it just failed faster, and 
> more often.  Once it does this it stops being able to spawn additional 
> processes saying it's out of memory. Top shows memory-a-plenty.  Since 
> it is such an old machine, I naturally thought, oh crap, my memory is 
> starting to fail.  But I am starting to wonder after reading this 
> thread, maybe it's the Intel915 on board that is out of memory?
>
> Anybody have any advice on this?
>
> Kevin
>