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mabra

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Registered: 2015-09-05

Posts: 57

Unresponsive apps: Popup kills all browser instances

Hello !

I am using XFCE4 (4.10.1) on debian (3.16.04).
There is a popup, if an app is "unresponsive". In my case, this is mostly "chromium". This happens, because there is no more free memory. If the popup appears und you click "yes" (to terminate the app), ALL instances of chromium are killed.

You loose all your work.

If you detect the problem manually (by monitoring free mem), you are able just to kill the instance which uses the most memory.
So I think, this is a bug and the popup uses "killall" under the hood.

Note: Unlike Firefox, Chroium is multiprocess (which is a very good choice!).

Is there a wy to change this behavior?

Thanks,

Manfred

ColdBoot

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Registered: 2016-07-19

Posts: 31

Re: Unresponsive apps: Popup kills all browser instances

Even though it is not an answer to your question, you could consider using the The Great Suspender extension in Chromium to prevent it going heavy on system resources and also try with cleaning system cache from time to time with:

sudo sh -c "sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches"

You can set it as a cron job.