[Solved] Can't launch chromium / edge

Sourav · 2020-11-28 11:55:47

I have upgraded to chromium 87.0.4280.66-1. No partial upgrades was done.

But as soon as I launch chromium I can see the disk disk IO light turns red on my laptop and stays red unless I kill chromium.

Firefox launches just fine.

Same problem with edge browser as well. On edge and chromium I get a warning message saying the pages are not responding:

https://i.imgur.com/4hCQYka.jpg

And it freezes my laptop so bad that I can't even move my mouse. Even launching the screenshot app and taking the the screenshot was a real pain.

I suspect it's using a lot of IO even though I am using an SSD.

Edit:
Whenever I launch chrome, edge and heck even falkon, and open up gnome-system-monitor, activate the "File Systems" tab, I can see, around 10 GB is written to the disk. And when I kill chromium, edge or falkon, 10 GB is then removed. Not sure yet what's writing that much to my SSD, because the system gets super slow.

As said, there's no problem with Firefox, and midori also runs just fine.

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Last edited by Sourav (2020-11-28 14:09:11)

seth · 2020-11-28 13:29:06

Please replace the oversized image w/ a link or thumbnail.

I dont know what the gnome system monitor shows, but you're either OOM and face thrashing (for lack of swap or you followed some retarded internet advice to lower vm.swappiness) or chromium is actually doing stupid stuff.
For the former, watch the RAM (free -hs1), for the latter case you want to "strace -f chromium" to see which files it reads/writes.

Sourav · 2020-11-28 13:31:57

Oops! I figured it out!

So the problem was I wanted to increase my system stack size according to this:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/1156795/11089758

But I specified the stack size to 2000000 in /etc/security/limits.conf. Hence the problem. I removed that line, and it's running just fine.

seth · 2020-11-28 13:38:16

"All stack and no heap makes arch a dull system" ;-)

Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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[Solved] Can't launch chromium / edge

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