I have had no issues with syncing my profile in chrome. Its a handy tool (Firefox is also able to do this) and i nearly swapped to Firefox recently but their profile swapping was less than satisfactory (it exists, but is kludgy as hell to do) On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Michael Butash wrote: > 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 >> >> > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen