[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1893650] Re: Chromium snap causes network traffic. (Duh!)

2021-02-20 Thread rew
I copied the "common" directory of ~/snap/chromium to a local filesystem (1Gb ) and created a symlink to point to the local version. When I start chromium I then get: mkdir: cannot create directory '/home/wolff/snap/chromium/common': File exists and chrome refuses to start. I then restored my

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1893650] Re: Chromium snap causes network traffic. (Duh!)

2021-02-20 Thread rew
(earlier this week:) To debug this further I started chromium under "strace -f -o /tmp/..." : Must be run as root. Hmm. Today I tried something different. I used strace on ALL 33 chrome processes. Many did something every second or so, just one was in a tight loop. This is also the process that

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1893650] Re: Chromium snap causes network traffic. (Duh!)

2021-02-17 Thread rew
I just measured the network trafic that chromium is causing It is about 23000 network packets per second. -- 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/1893650 Title:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1893650] Re: Chromium snap causes network traffic. (Duh!)

2020-08-31 Thread rew
OK. Done. Downloaded, tested: Nope, google-chrome-stable does not show this behaviour. -- 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/1893650 Title: Chromium snap causes

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1893650] Re: Chromium snap causes network traffic. (Duh!)

2020-08-31 Thread rew
(posting this from Chromium again, and immediately I see the network traffic ballooning. It does look a bit as if the linux "select" behaviour: modify the timeout to show time remaining is involved: It takes like 15 seconds of medium traffic before stuff is back to the original level again. My

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1893650] Re: Chromium snap causes network traffic. (Duh!)

2020-08-31 Thread Olivier Tilloy
Thanks for the report rew. For testing purposes, could you download the google chrome installer from google.com/chrome, install it and test whether it is behaving similarly? That would be a useful data point. Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop