Public bug reported:

After 6 days uptime, Chromum begins to exhibit black flashing in various 
situations, typically a sign of GPU problems
After rebooting, the problem reappeared after 6 days.

After a few days of a flashing Chromium, GNOME Shell freezes
To recover, the computer must be rebooted, indicating a kernel-level resource 
leak

Exhibited on multiple-display HiDPI computer
Not shown on a single-display nVidia

Steps to reproduce the problem:
Browse to 
http://www.slideshare.net/lemiorhan/test-driven-design-gdg-devfest-istanbul-2016

BUG
- Constant flashing of address bar, bookmark bar and large parts of the content 
area
- 80%+ cpu on the tab, 50% for Browser and 20% GPU (2-core hyperthreading)

Moving the mouse cursor over the bookmark bar or the tabs for for
certain pages, eg. Google search, flashes the bookmark bar and the
address bar. It’s steady for Google Translate

Works fine in Firefox 50.1.0

This appears to be a problem starting at a mutter upgrade:
On 2017-01-09 upgrade of mutter
to: 3.22.2-3~ubuntu16.10.1
from: 3.22.2-2ubuntu1~ubuntu16.10.1

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: mutter 3.22.2-3~ubuntu16.10.1 [origin: 
LP-PPA-gnome3-team-gnome3-staging]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-34.36-generic 4.8.11
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-34-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Sat Jan 21 10:28:52 2017
SourcePackage: mutter
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-11-16 (65 days ago)

** Affects: ubuntu-gnome
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: mutter (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug gnome3-ppa gnome3-staging third-party-packages 
wayland-session yakkety

** Also affects: mutter (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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