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 <michael@butash.net> 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


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