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Title: chromium has a memory leak! Status in “chromium-browser” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: chromium-browser Chromium is getting too hungry for RAM. It is not crucial and the system overall does not hang as has been reported before, however it is a very annoying problem. With a few open tabs (like mostly wikipedia.org) it manages to consume up to 500MB. I have some extensions turned on, they do not seem to be the culprit. It is actual tabs. Here's what I get from top: top - 00:07:42 up 5 days, 2:52, 6 users, load average: 0.04, 0.13, 0.14 Tasks: 219 total, 1 running, 217 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie Cpu(s): 5.9%us, 4.2%sy, 0.8%ni, 86.5%id, 2.6%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 1529884k total, 1493028k used, 36856k free, 17752k buffers Swap: 1638624k total, 676916k used, 961708k free, 391840k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 21450 me 20 0 1056m 170m 6988 S 0 11.4 6:05.47 chromium-browse 13560 me 20 0 917m 128m 15m S 0 8.6 0:15.55 chromium-browse 11824 me 20 0 1439m 92m 7984 S 0 6.2 18:26.01 amarok 2156 me 20 0 711m 79m 15m S 9 5.3 28:10.86 chromium-browse 13266 me 25 5 898m 75m 14m S 1 5.1 0:17.35 chromium-browse 19944 me 25 5 920m 69m 5668 S 0 4.7 1:23.94 chromium-browse 2188 me 20 0 870m 37m 2428 S 0 2.5 6:22.08 chromium-browse 13258 me 20 0 233m 27m 14m S 0 1.8 0:01.52 emacs23 1646 me 20 0 395m 23m 7200 S 0 1.6 1:53.94 gnome-panel 9906 me 20 0 167m 22m 2380 S 1 1.5 8:46.08 amuled 883 root 20 0 195m 20m 8356 S 5 1.4 44:03.29 Xorg 12424 me 20 0 291m 18m 4912 S 0 1.2 0:50.65 python 7617 me 20 0 570m 16m 4968 S 0 1.1 0:22.35 nautilus 1878 me 20 0 262m 11m 5096 S 1 0.8 3:59.72 gnome-terminal 9891 root 25 5 36624 10m 324 S 0 0.7 1:26.84 moblock 26841 me 20 0 99368 9312 1496 S 0 0.6 0:04.02 mutt 2198 me 20 0 842m 9216 4644 S 0 0.6 0:44.33 chromium-browse 2183 me 20 0 843m 8800 2892 S 0 0.6 1:01.03 chromium-browse 1716 me 20 0 414m 8560 4832 S 0 0.6 1:26.13 wnck-applet 1746 me 20 0 427m 8072 4448 S 0 0.5 0:14.89 clock-applet 1740 me 20 0 270m 7952 4472 S 0 0.5 0:15.04 gweather-applet 2193 me 20 0 842m 7888 3116 S 0 0.5 0:44.86 chromium-browse 1631 me 20 0 313m 7668 3428 S 1 0.5 19:40.85 compiz And here's what the "stats for nerds" says itself: Memory Browser Private Proportional Chromium 543,424k 74,517k Note: If other browsers (e.g. IE, Firefox, Safari) are running, I'll show their memory details here. I guess this is too much! ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: chromium-browser 5.0.375.99~r51029-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 Uname: Linux 2.6.34-020634-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Jul 21 23:59:41 2010 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: chromium-browser To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/608538/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp