Chrome/chromium constantly exhausting file handlers/ulimits

[Michael Butash]

On 04/15/2015 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.
>
I've heard as much, but their products continue to be highly unstable 
under linux, so I somewhat doubt this.  It's been shite for me since 
early 30's of releases, and just gets worse now.
>
> 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.
>
This is 4000k proc, 32gb of ddr3, and ssd's - nothing slouch about this 
system, and yet some software, like chrom* makes this thing behave like 
windoze me at times, like just about any flipping compositor.  Big or 
little, their software is proving, microsoft-like, and disturbing it can 
make linux freak out still this bad.

Case in point, vmware refuses to launch their view client for work 
stuff, I can't even launch firefox to avoid chrome stupidity now until I 
kill every google process and/or restart to flush everything.   Here I 
am rebooting to make it sane again for the moment.  :\

Sadly I find using mozilla isn't fully sufficient for as much 
integration around various google-app integrated things I rely on now, 
I'm starting to feel that same m$-ish lock-in.  Sub-par software 
handling of most of my workflow under linux that perhaps I need to 
rethink dependence on them and chrome as an application server.
>
> Kevin
>
>
Thanks for the comments!