<p dir="ltr">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?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Anybody have any advice on this?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Kevin </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 16, 2015 1:32 PM, "Michael Havens" <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">The GPU is onboard in this case. It is in an old VISTA computer. it doesn't seem to be affecting anything, I just never noticed it before.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Stephen Partington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com" target="_blank">cryptworks@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">the intel GPU's are pretty fair nowadays, with the HD 4200+ graphics systems. but if you have a discrete GPU from nvidia or AMD as well as one on the motherboard you may want to disable the onboard one. this can cause issues unless your drivers can integrate it well. Laptops are a bit different because of the nvidia optimus functionality to use the intel gpu unless a workload of sufficient complexity comes along to require the additional horsepower. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Michael Butash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net" target="_blank">michael@butash.net</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>
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<div>Correct, even anything since the Core
line of intel's have come with (crappy) gpu's on them in the cpu
die, for better or usually worse.<br>
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Intel's usually cause more harm than good sadly, thus disabling
them occasionally helps if your browser is trying to offload gpu
function to a chronically dysfunctional gpu (or driver).<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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-mb</font></span><span><br>
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On 03/16/2015 12:19 PM, Rusty Ramser wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">What
kind of system are you using, Mike? Even if you don’t have
a desktop PC with a high-powered Nvidia or Radeon GPU card
plugged into the motherboard, your system will have some
type of GPU. If you don’t have an add-on card, it will
probably be provided by a (usually weak) on-board Intel HD
type of GPU.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank">plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org</a>
[<a href="mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank">mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org</a>] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Michael Havens<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 16, 2015 12:14<br>
<b>To:</b> Mike Butash; Main PLUG discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: nacl_helper<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">but I have no gpu (I don't think).<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">:-)~MIKE~(-:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u><br>
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