Chromium is having a memory leak

Bug #567271 reported by Anthony Hook
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chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: chromium-browser

Chromium browser appears to be having memory problems and occasionally brings my system to a halt. After the kernel recovers itself, I see dmesg reports chromium-browser was killed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: chromium-browser 5.0.342.9~r43360-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Apr 20 09:24:45 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100226)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: chromium-browser

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Anthony Hook (anthonyhook) wrote :

Turns out this is related to the xorg memory leak that exists in Lucid.

Changed in chromium-browser (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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Colan Schwartz (colan) wrote :

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