[Expired for chromium-browser (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]
** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1540179 Title: chromium-browser uses excessive resources in Xubuntu 16.04 Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: Expired Bug description: My machine has 8GB RAM. Upon launching a single tab of one Chrome window, it normally takes 17-19 seconds to display the window and become usable. Compare this to Firefox version 44.0 which launches and becomes usable in 2-3 seconds. Please note that I frequently use both of these browsers and I am not biased either way. Digging a little deeper, I see that Chrome starts 7 processes just for this single tab Chrome browser window. `ps -e -m --cols 256 -o 'size,args' | grep chrom` 461420 chromium-browser --ppapi-flash-path=/usr/lib/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/libpepflashplayer.so --ppapi-flash-version=18.0.0.233 --enable-pinch 6380 chromium-browser --type=zygote --ppapi-flash-path=/usr/lib/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/libpepflashplayer.so --ppapi-flash-version=18.0.0.233 39164 chromium-browser --type=zygote --ppapi-flash-path=/usr/lib/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/libpepflashplayer.so --ppapi-flash-version=18.0.0.233 551940 /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser --type=renderer --enable-pinch --lang=en-US --force-fieldtrials=AutofillClassifier/Enabled/Auto 64100 chromium-browser --type=gpu-process --channel=10330.2.320071530 --supports-dual-gpus=false --gpu-driver-bug-workarounds=2,3,18,25,33,47,51,63 --disable-accelerated-video-decode --gpu-vendor-id=0x1002 --gpu-device-id=0x9612 --gpu-driver-vendor=Mesa -- 419048 /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser --type=renderer --enable-pinch --lang=en-US --force-fieldtrials=AutofillClassifier/Enabled/Auto 435984 /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser --type=renderer --enable-pinch --lang=en-US --force-fieldtrials=AutofillClassifier/Enabled/*Aut Adding up the Chrome total memory size in kilobytes, I get a total of 1,978,036 kilobytes or~2GB. That seems excessive to me. I do not recall if this was also the case when I was running Xubuntu 14.04 on this machine but Chrome never was this slow before. My Chrome extensions: AdBlock 2.48 and Send from Gmail (by Google) 1.16, both enabled. I have quite a few extensions and plugins in Firefox (E.g. Flash, Java, OpenH264, AdblockPlus). Yet, `ps -e -m --cols 256 -o 'size,args' | grep irefox` 769012 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox That is, the single tab Firefox window required one Firefox process at a s ize of 769MB (piggy add-ons?). Still, Firefox is fast enough. The `top` report header while both browsers are sitting idle: Tasks: 209 total, 1 running, 208 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 1.7 us, 1.0 sy, 0.0 ni, 97.2 id, 0.2 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem : 7915748 total, 4403188 free, 1364560 used, 2148000 buff/cache KiB Swap: 8122364 total, 8122364 free, 0 used. 6450608 avail Mem So, I do not think Chrome should have been waiting on resources during launch. My machine specs: Xubuntu Xenial (16.04) - HP Pavilion dv3-1075us Laptop - Product page: http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01632154 - It came with Windows Vista + HP bloatware - CPU: AMD Turion X2 RM-72 Dual-Core Mobile Processor @ 2.10 GHz - RAM: 8GB (max: 8GB) - Video: ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics - Current storage: SSD 64GB (shipped with HDD 320GB @ 5400 rpm) - Weight: 4.6 lbs (2.09 kg) QA Team Gist link: https://gist.github.com/9c6dbcd7cc1c24175aee ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: chromium-browser 47.0.2526.106-0ubuntu1.1221 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.3.0-7.18-generic 4.3.3 Uname: Linux 4.3.0-7-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 2.19.4-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: XFCE DRM.card0.HDMI.A.1: edid-base64: dpms: On modes: enabled: disabled status: disconnected DRM.card0.LVDS.1: edid-base64: AP///////wAw5GgBAAAAABkSAQOAHRJ4CgAFAAAAAAAAUFQAAAABAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBEhsAgFAgEDAYIEQAS88QAAAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/gAAAABMR0RJU1BMQVkKAAAA/gBMUDEzM1dYMi1UTEUxAE8= dpms: On modes: 1280x800 1280x720 1152x768 1024x768 800x600 848x480 720x480 640x480 enabled: enabled status: connected DRM.card0.VGA.1: edid-base64: dpms: On modes: enabled: disabled status: disconnected Date: Sun Jan 31 17:21:22 2016 Desktop-Session: 'xubuntu' '/etc/xdg/xdg-xubuntu:/usr/share/upstart/xdg:/etc/xdg:/etc/xdg' '/usr/share/xubuntu:/usr/share/xfce4:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/:/usr/share' DetectedPlugins: Env: 'None' 'None' InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-09-18 (135 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha amd64 (20150825) Load-Avg-1min: 0.55 Load-Processes-Running-Percent: 0.2% MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv3 Notebook PC ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.3.0-7-generic root=UUID=f0453f42-1d84-4c59-af30-ba4484fb3e8c ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: chromium-browser UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-01-13 (18 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 08/25/2009 dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.bios.version: F.15 dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag dmi.board.name: 1506 dmi.board.vendor: Compal dmi.board.version: 14.31 dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: Compal dmi.chassis.version: N/A dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.15:bd08/25/2009:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPPaviliondv3NotebookPC:pvr1:rvnCompal:rn1506:rvr14.31:cvnCompal:ct10:cvrN/A: dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion dv3 Notebook PC dmi.product.version: 1 dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard gconf-keys: /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec = b'firefox\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command = b'firefox %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command = b'firefox %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager = b''/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager = b''/desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme = b'gnome\n'/desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme = b'Clearlooks\n' modified.conffile..etc.default.chromium.browser: [deleted] mtime.conffile..etc.chromium.browser.default: 2015-09-19T13:24:52.401305 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1540179/+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