Re: Killing only selected Chrome windows from the CLI ?

2018-03-28 Thread chicago
>You're not the only one. I also have to restrain myself whenever I see >certain posters using the non-existent pronoun 'i' or starting >sentences in lower-case, but experience shows that remarking on it is >usually a waste of time and energy. I think it is worth it to repeat this though. I am am

Re: Killing only selected Chrome windows from the CLI ?

2018-03-28 Thread JD
On 03/27/2018 07:30 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 03/27/2018 06:18 PM, JD wrote: I think you are way way too stressed out. I am merely trying to reduce my typing as I am not such a good typist. He wasn't the only one thinking it, though. I was considering making the same comment. __ Har

Re: Killing only selected Chrome windows from the CLI ?

2018-03-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2018-03-27 at 18:30 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/27/2018 06:18 PM, JD wrote: > > I think you are way way too stressed out. > > I am merely trying to reduce my typing as I am not such a good typist. > > He wasn't the only one thinking it, though. I was considering making > the same

Re: Killing only selected Chrome windows from the CLI ?

2018-03-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2018-03-28 at 09:13 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 03/28/18 09:03, Rick Stevens wrote: > > On 03/27/2018 04:27 PM, JD wrote: > > > > > > > if the load is still high, at least u will have eliminated that window. > > > so try this with each window and check the cpu load. > > > > > > > >

Re: Killing only selected Chrome windows from the CLI ?

2018-03-27 Thread Philip Rhoades
Tom, On 2018-03-28 10:37, Tom Horsley wrote: Possibly relevant enhancement that might appear someday is discussed in this bug report: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=766068 (I don't get the impression you should hold out hope for "someday" to be soon though).

Re: Killing only selected Chrome windows from the CLI ?

2018-03-27 Thread Philip Rhoades
JD, On 2018-03-28 10:27, JD wrote: On 03/26/2018 07:53 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: Samuel, On 2018-03-27 12:18, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 03/26/2018 05:59 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: but it is not what I want to do - when Chrome goes mad and the whole system starts grinding to a halt (I know from

Re: Killing only selected Chrome windows from the CLI ?

2018-03-27 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/27/2018 06:18 PM, JD wrote: I think you are way way too stressed out. I am merely trying to reduce my typing as I am not such a good typist. He wasn't the only one thinking it, though. I was considering making the same comment. ___ users

Re: Killing only selected Chrome windows from the CLI ?

2018-03-27 Thread JD
On 03/27/2018 07:03 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 03/27/2018 04:27 PM, JD wrote: if the load is still high, at least u will have eliminated that window. so try this with each window and check the cpu load. While u r at it, also check the mem usage of chrome. High mem usage can cause a lot

Re: Killing only selected Chrome windows from the CLI ?

2018-03-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/28/18 09:03, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 03/27/2018 04:27 PM, JD wrote: > > >> if the load is still high, at least u will have eliminated that window. >> so try this with each window and check the cpu load. > > >> While u r  at it, also check the mem usage of chrome. High mem usage >> can

Re: Killing only selected Chrome windows from the CLI ?

2018-03-27 Thread Rick Stevens
On 03/27/2018 04:27 PM, JD wrote: > if the load is still high, at least u will have eliminated that window. > so try this with each window and check the cpu load. > While u r  at it, also check the mem usage of chrome. High mem usage > can cause a lot of paging and even swapping if u  r a

Re: Killing only selected Chrome windows from the CLI ?

2018-03-27 Thread Tom Horsley
Possibly relevant enhancement that might appear someday is discussed in this bug report: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=766068 (I don't get the impression you should hold out hope for "someday" to be soon though). ___ users

Re: Killing only selected Chrome windows from the CLI ?

2018-03-27 Thread JD
On 03/26/2018 07:53 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: Samuel, On 2018-03-27 12:18, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 03/26/2018 05:59 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: but it is not what I want to do - when Chrome goes mad and the whole system starts grinding to a halt (I know from experience it is Chrome) I want to

Re: Killing only selected Chrome windows from the CLI ?

2018-03-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2018-03-27 at 12:19 +1100, Philip Rhoades wrote: > > If enought people scream > > at google for such an interface, then google /might/ provide such a > > cli. > > > I won't be holding my breath - there are so many other common-sense app > things that Google has not done for years, I

Re: Killing only selected Chrome windows from the CLI ?

2018-03-27 Thread Philip Rhoades
Todd, On 2018-03-27 15:41, Todd Zullinger wrote: Philip Rhoades wrote: On 2018-03-27 12:18, Samuel Sieb wrote: If you run top, which process is using the CPU? Just kill that one, then go through your chrome tabs and find out which tab has the sad face on it. That usually doesn't work from

Re: Killing only selected Chrome windows from the CLI ?

2018-03-27 Thread Philip Rhoades
Samuel, On 2018-03-27 15:22, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 03/26/2018 06:53 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: On 2018-03-27 12:18, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 03/26/2018 05:59 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: but it is not what I want to do - when Chrome goes mad and the whole system starts grinding to a halt (I know

Re: Killing only selected Chrome windows from the CLI ?

2018-03-26 Thread Todd Zullinger
Philip Rhoades wrote: > On 2018-03-27 12:18, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> If you run top, which process is using the CPU? Just kill that one, >> then go through your chrome tabs and find out which tab has the sad >> face on it. > > That usually doesn't work from my recollection, no individual tab seems

Re: Killing only selected Chrome windows from the CLI ?

2018-03-26 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/26/2018 06:53 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: On 2018-03-27 12:18, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 03/26/2018 05:59 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: but it is not what I want to do - when Chrome goes mad and the whole system starts grinding to a halt (I know from experience it is Chrome) I want to try and

Re: Killing only selected Chrome windows from the CLI ?

2018-03-26 Thread Philip Rhoades
Samuel, On 2018-03-27 12:18, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 03/26/2018 05:59 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: but it is not what I want to do - when Chrome goes mad and the whole system starts grinding to a halt (I know from experience it is Chrome) I want to try and work out what specific Chrome tab or

Re: Killing only selected Chrome windows from the CLI ?

2018-03-26 Thread Philip Rhoades
JD, On 2018-03-27 12:10, JD wrote: On 03/26/2018 06:59 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: People, This command exits the chrome process tree gracefully, in all window managers: pkill --oldest chrome but it is not what I want to do - when Chrome goes mad and the whole system starts grinding to

Re: Killing only selected Chrome windows from the CLI ?

2018-03-26 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/26/2018 05:59 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: but it is not what I want to do - when Chrome goes mad and the whole system starts grinding to a halt (I know from experience it is Chrome) I want to try and work out what specific Chrome tab or window is the problem.  Chrome has its own task

Re: Killing only selected Chrome windows from the CLI ?

2018-03-26 Thread JD
On 03/26/2018 06:59 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: People, This command exits the chrome process tree gracefully, in all window managers: pkill --oldest chrome but it is not what I want to do - when Chrome goes mad and the whole system starts grinding to a halt (I know from experience it is