[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#604954: (no subject)

[Stephen Williams]

Package: chromium-browser
Version: 6.0.472.63~r59945-5+squeeze2

Happens to me about half the time on Wikia sites (e.g. http://starwars.wikia.com/).  Browser starts allocating large amounts of memory; system begins swapping, then grinds to a halt, completely frozen.  Prior to the freeze, there's a few seconds of reduced responsiveness; the freeze can be avoided if I manage to close the browser tab during this time.

I'm using wheezy on an amd64 machine with one gigabyte of RAM and two gigabytes of encrypted swap (dm-crypt, twofish-cbc-essiv:sha256).  Kernel 2.6.32-30 (self-built, configuration available on request) with proprietary nvidia graphics module.

It's probably the kind of problem that can be solved by throwing memory at it.  RAM is cheap, and my one gig system is looking a bit silly in 2011...

-Stephen