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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