I've never had a problem (that I remember). :-)~MIKE~(-: On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Kevin Fries wrote: > I have seen both Chrome and Chromium go ape s#&$ on my system. While it > does happen very occasionally on other systems, my old netbook that only > runs 32bit is damn near unusable with either browser... I have had to > resort to xombrero. > > And yes, Google does EVERYTHING in Linux. They use Ubuntu as the > corporate standard in house. But sometimes I think they suffer from the > same problem as Sun used to... they are so used to nearly inexhaustible > pockets, they forget that sometimes people have old, small machines. > > Kevin > On Apr 15, 2015 11:46 AM, "Michael Butash" wrote: > >> Just wondering if others have issues with chrome/chromium under linux >> perpetually forking up to kill your system? This has been happening for >> some time, but I have recently had to switch to using multiple profiles, >> and it's only made the problem factorial now. >> >> I've read there are tons of issues with chrome requiring ulimit increases >> (linux forkbomb protection), all of which I've done, but I'm still seeming >> exhausting them to the point it's absurd that it should require so drastic >> an increase outside of norm. >> >> You might not even realize it at first, I didn't, but it'll manifest >> itself a number of ways, including things not opening, things hanging, >> dialogs not opening, plugins not working, etc. Then I'll notice my system >> in various other ways start freaking out. Logs or running them via cli >> usually shows it can't request handlers for files or libraries to launch. >> Doing a killall -9 on chrom* fixes it. >> >> Why though, and what are other's experiences? Google doesn't seem to >> find it an issue, but I wonder if those dorks really do anything productive >> with linux outside of a chromebook with 2 apps open anyways. I can tax my >> 32gb of ram at times in not frivolous manors, but chrome is just being a >> pig. >> >> -mb >> --------------------------------------------------- >> 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 >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 >