Comment #8 on issue 20012 by Robert.Bradbury: end process from task manager doesn't work in Fedora 11, Ubuntu 9.04, Open SuSe 11.1 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=20012
This bug report doesn't make any sense to me. Linux doesn't have a "task manager" (at least not on my Gnome-Panel -> System -> Preferences | Administration (sub- menus)). [Sounds like aocampo is a reformed Windows user... :-)] If I read between the lines I think this is the same as Issue #23778. The problem is that chrome isn't collecting defunct/zombie child processes. If you properly identify the master chrome parent process (usually the first or second line of "ps f -C chrome" from a shell) and kill that I believe it should kill all chrome sub-processes. As I noted in Issue #23778, if you have hit the per-user process (thread?) limit chrome may become generally unresponsive. And as noted there the only way around it currently seems to be to kill the chrome master parent process (and all children) and restart the session (fortunately this will cleanup the defunct processes and does seem to work though it can be tedious). Alternatively, you can alter the per-user process limit if your system allows it (e.g. ulimit -Su 500 in your .profile or before starting chrome) or change your system limits (/etc/security/limits.conf -- set nproc 500 or larger and reboot). But this will not be an ideal workaround if you leave the chrome session running for days/weeks as the uncollected defunct processes will accumulate in the process table. Setting a huge nproc limit is unwise because run-away shell scripts can easily bring the system to its knees. (One could argue that this is a Linux kernel bug as "defunct" processes shouldn't count towards the user limit, but as they take up kernel memory space until collected, this argument isn't likely to get much traction with the kernel developers). -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Automated mail from issue updates at http://crbug.com/ Subscription options: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-bugs -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
