Chrome/chromium constantly exhausting file handlers/ulimits

[Stephen Partington]

I have recently started migrating back to Firefox. Chrome memory
utilization has become absurd.
On Apr 15, 2015 12:48 PM, "Kevin Fries" <kevin at fries-biro.com> 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" <michael at butash.net> 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
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