Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chromium - Memory Hog and Crashing

2013-06-11 Thread Liam Proven
On 11 June 2013 03:51, Jon Farmer wrote: > My 8Gb machine is 64 bit. Good choice. > I moved to Chrome and so far so good. Excellent, glad to hear it. I suggest adding the AdBlock+ extension for a less cluttered web experience. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chromium - Memory Hog and Crashing

2013-06-10 Thread Jon Farmer
My 8Gb machine is 64 bit. I moved to Chrome and so far so good. Regards Jon On 10 Jun 2013 10:41, "Liam Proven" wrote: > On 10 June 2013 03:29, Jon Farmer wrote: > > One of my machines affected by this has 8Gb RAM. How much is not enough? > > 32-bit or 64-bit kernel, though? > > Despite PAE,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chromium - Memory Hog and Crashing

2013-06-10 Thread Liam Proven
On 10 June 2013 03:29, Jon Farmer wrote: > One of my machines affected by this has 8Gb RAM. How much is not enough? 32-bit or 64-bit kernel, though? Despite PAE, with a 32-bit system, apps can't be bigger than 2GB or so, no matter how much memory you have. You just get more of them. However, th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chromium - Memory Hog and Crashing

2013-06-09 Thread Jon Farmer
Hi One of my machines affected by this has 8Gb RAM. How much is not enough? Regards Jon On 7 Jun 2013 22:27, "Phill Whiteside" wrote: > There is a known bug for low-ram machines > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1096603 But > I've not hit this with my machine (4

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chromium - Memory Hog and Crashing

2013-06-07 Thread Phill Whiteside
There is a known bug for low-ram machines https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1096603 But I've not hit this with my machine (4GB RAM) with multiple tabs open, although shockwave can eat CPU time at a silly rate if it gets upset. (See comment #4 from Chad Miller). Last up

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chromium - Memory Hog and Crashing

2013-06-07 Thread Liam Proven
On 7 June 2013 16:27, Jon Farmer wrote: > I am getting daily freezes and crashes of Chromium on both Ubuntu and > Lubuntu machines. Sometimes it says it ran out of memory on a 8G ram machine > with no other applications running or other times just sends the load > average up to silly numbers and t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chromium - Memory Hog and Crashing

2013-06-07 Thread alan c
On 07/06/13 17:19, Simon Greenwood wrote: On 7 June 2013 16:27, Jon Farmer wrote: Hi I am getting daily freezes and crashes of Chromium on both Ubuntu and Lubuntu machines. Sometimes it says it ran out of memory on a 8G ram machine with no other applications running or other times just sends

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chromium - Memory Hog and Crashing

2013-06-07 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 7 June 2013 16:27, Jon Farmer wrote: > Hi > > I am getting daily freezes and crashes of Chromium on both Ubuntu and > Lubuntu machines. Sometimes it says it ran out of memory on a 8G ram > machine with no other applications running or other times just sends the > load average up to silly numbe

[ubuntu-uk] Chromium - Memory Hog and Crashing

2013-06-07 Thread Jon Farmer
Hi I am getting daily freezes and crashes of Chromium on both Ubuntu and Lubuntu machines. Sometimes it says it ran out of memory on a 8G ram machine with no other applications running or other times just sends the load average up to silly numbers and thrashes the disk. Anyone else seeing this or