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#1 2014-12-26 14:05:42
- technolog
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Chromium under X32 ABI?
Hey,
in my usecase, chromium uses most of the memory most of the time. I am interested in X32 abi, which would certainly decrease the memory requirement. Since every tab is its own process, there is no way to exceed the 4GB-per-process limit.
How much work would it take to try to run just chromium under X32 abi on Arch?
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#2 2014-12-26 14:51:00
- Allan
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Re: Chromium under X32 ABI?
You would probably use more memory as all the X32 libraries for chromium would need loaded into memory. Your x86_64 version probably has many of them loaded already due to other software.
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#3 2014-12-26 15:37:35
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Re: Chromium under X32 ABI?
That is a valid standpoint, but I estimate it to be around 200-300MB total. On windows, they are statically linked anyways.
Chrome currently uses 4GB RAM + 3GB swap, so it would decrease pretty significantly.
Is something like this doable on arch in a few hours?
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#4 2014-12-26 16:33:16
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Re: Chromium under X32 ABI?
You would need to build an x32 toolchain - there are packages for that in the AUR. Then create libx32-???? packages for all the libraries that are needed and finally build chromium. I guess given you need to ask about the time taken, you are looking at at least a day to do this, but potentially much more.
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#5 2014-12-26 17:02:26
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Re: Chromium under X32 ABI?
Does this huge consumption of memory also happen on other web browsers (e.g. firefox, opera, luakit)? I wonder if this is a specific problem from chromium (for your use case).
Last edited by thiagowfx (2014-12-26 17:03:15)
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#6 2014-12-27 09:23:19
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Re: Chromium under X32 ABI?
Well, it's not a problem, it' just a way chromium is. In general, other browsers are less memory hungry.
I have decided not to proceed with this project as it would require too much effort.
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#7 2014-12-29 02:17:04
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Re: Chromium under X32 ABI?
Maybe this is a little off topic, but I just stumbled upon this today. Perhaps it could have something to do with your problem?Also, try opening Chromium's task manager (hotkey is Shift+Esc) and track what exactly is eating up the memory from your computer.
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