chromium leaving zombies

replabrobin · 2013-03-06 19:40:30

I'm running an up to date arch system Linux bunyip 3.7.10-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Feb 28 09:50:17 CET 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Chromium Version 25.0.1364.152 (185281) is leaving behind zombies. I googled some mentions of this, but there was no mention of a fix. Is this a known problem?

$ psg chromium
0 1000 22825 492 20 0 619616 94200 futex_ Sl ? 0:12 /usr/lib/chromium/chromium
1 1000 22827 22825 20 0 376324 17132 poll_s S ? 0:00 /usr/lib/chromium/chromium
4 1000 22828 22825 20 0 6376 396 wait S ? 0:00 /usr/lib/chromium/chromium-sandbox /usr/lib/chromium/chromium --type=zygote
4 1000 22829 22828 20 0 396508 37828 wait S ? 0:00 /usr/lib/chromium/chromium --type=zygote
0 1000 22835 22829 20 0 244160 25852 skb_re S ? 0:00 /usr/lib/chromium/nacl_helper_bootstrap /usr/lib/chromium/nacl_helper --reserved_at_zero=0x0000000000000000 --r_debug=0x0000000000213000
1 1000 22836 22829 20 0 404704 14868 skb_re S ? 0:00 /usr/lib/chromium/chromium --type=zygote
1 1000 22868 22836 20 0 1032816 113148 futex_ Sl ? 0:05 /usr/lib/chromium/chromium --type=renderer --lang=en-GB --force-fieldtrials=ForceCompositingMode/disable/InfiniteCache/No/OmniboxHQPReplaceHUPRearrangeNumComponents/Standard/OmniboxSearchSuggestTrialStarted2013Q1/14/OneClickSignIn/BlueOnWhite/Prefetch/ContentPrefetchPrefetchOn/Prerender/Prerender15minTTL/UMA-Session-Randomized-Uniformity-Trial-5-Percent/group_19/UMA-Uniformity-Trial-1-Percent/group_19/UMA-Uniformity-Trial-10-Percent/group_04/UMA-Uniformity-Trial-20-Percent/default/UMA-Uniformity-Trial-5-Percent/group_05/UMA-Uniformity-Trial-50-Percent/default/ --extension-process --disable-accelerated-2d-canvas --disable-accelerated-video-decode --channel=22825.1.914920572
1 1000 22875 22825 20 0 594216 39664 futex_ S ? 0:00 /usr/lib/chromium/chromium
1 1000 22879 22825 20 0 610608 39480 futex_ S ? 0:00 /usr/lib/chromium/chromium
0 1000 23475 23432 20 0 10656 1124 pipe_w S+ pts/0

the sad clown · 2013-03-06 22:20:11

You could try aliasing the launch command to something like "chromium && pkill chromium".

neodreams · 2013-03-07 04:10:49

The same is happening with Google Chrome Dev on AUR so it's probably not a package problem, i always need to kill the "chrome" process and also "Chrome_ProcessL", it's getting annoying.

replabrobin · 2013-03-07 08:18:12

I find that trying killall chromium doesn't actually work to remove all the processes. I usually need to follow the chain of process ids to kill them all. In advanced settings I noticed a tick box marked [bold]Background Processes[/bold] Continue running background apps when Chromium is closed. I have unchecked that as presumably it might contribute. With all the checking of settings etc etc I noticed another 'feature'. If my usb dvb is running when I open up the settings page then vlc stops running (reselecting the channel starts it up again); weird. I guess chromium is probing something fairly hard which interferes with the pctv 290e.

hifi25nl · 2013-03-07 09:34:07

Not only a lot of zombies but also a big slowdown of all kde apps (dolphin, ecc). The only way is to kill not only chromium but all chromium related apps in Ksysguard.

replabrobin · 2013-03-07 20:46:18

I run openbox so don't know about kde etc. I have noticed occasional problems opening up new browser tabs. Unfortunately, my unchecking the 'Continue running background apps' setting doesn't seem to have improved the situation. I still get zombies which need manual destruction.

max.bra · 2013-03-07 22:01:22

same here, since chromium 25
seems to be related with nvidia driver: read this

nvidia card for me, you?

edit: link typo

Last edited by max.bra (2013-03-07 22:09:15)

Kelsier · 2013-03-07 22:08:35

Nvidia driver here and I've been having the same issue since Chromium 25 also.

hifi25nl · 2013-03-07 22:17:40

Nvidia driver here. I have also deleted chromium configuration. The problem persists

max.bra · 2013-03-07 22:20:21

hifi25nl wrote:

Not only a lot of zombies but also a big slowdown of all kde apps (dolphin, ecc). The only way is to kill not only chromium but all chromium related apps in Ksysguard.

i don't have browsed so much but seems that kde slow down problem is solved by disabling "GPU compositing on all pages" (sorry but is brutally translated from my locale) under about:flags

zombies always there

mzneverdies · 2013-03-08 08:50:56

hifi25nl wrote:

Not only a lot of zombies but also a big slowdown of all kde apps (dolphin, ecc). The only way is to kill not only chromium but all chromium related apps in Ksysguard.

This happens and is VERY annoying. Hope chrome/chromium get patched soon...

Last edited by mzneverdies (2013-03-08 08:51:10)

replabrobin · 2013-03-08 21:42:27

I have an nvidia driver too. Has anyone tried nouveau?

karabaja4 · 2013-03-10 09:57:58

I have this problem too. I reverted to Chromium 25.0.1364.97-1, that one doesn't leave zombies.

Selo · 2013-03-10 10:58:47

Same issue, i have to do manual kill -15 for Chrome_ProcessL

08993 · 2013-03-12 18:40:26

Do any of you use the extension Adblock?

I also have zombies and a few times upon startup my browser would hang with the message "waiting for adblock" - so I removed adblock and switched over to adblock plus and as of yet I've had no zombies...

May just be a coincidence, please report any success of this is indeed a cause of the zombies.

EDIT/ Oops don't forget to restart chromium after swapping extensions and kill any of the remaining zombies left over before performing tests.
EDIT2/ Nope they are back! Sorry for the noise!

Last edited by 08993 (2013-03-12 23:49:01)

smirky · 2013-03-13 06:27:32

After the latest version 25.0.1364.172 (187217), the problem persists.

replabrobin · 2013-03-13 18:34:07

08993 wrote:

EDIT2/ Nope they are back! Sorry for the noise!

I think this dev thread

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.or … Lf5l669dCk

is addressing the probable cause. Seems google started using their own malloc and that interacts badly with some things that nvidia is doing.

smakked · 2013-03-13 21:45:08

No issue here with nouveau driver, had the same issue with nvidia on another machine.

smakked · 2013-03-17 01:11:38

This is pretty annoying, had to downgrade chromium as karabaja4 has done, hope they fix it soon

deadrabbit · 2013-03-17 01:30:53

I was able to fix this by switching to the nvidia-304xx package (with lib32-nvidia-304xx). Nouveau also fixed it, but I need the nvidia driver for opencl in darktable. Hopefully the 313 package will be fixed soon.

karabaja4 · 2013-03-19 22:24:14

Both downgrading Chromium to 25.0.1364.97-1 or installing nvidia-304xx didn't help. You might think some of that helped because most of the times Chromium exits normally, until one time it leaves a bunch of processes running.

I wrote a small script to clean up Chromium processes after exit, use it to start Chromium. It requires wmctrl package.

#!/bin/bash

chromium

if [[ -z $(wmctrl -l | grep Chromium) ]]; then
    echo -e "\e[1;31mCleaning up...\e[0m"
    pkill -f /usr/lib/chromium/
else
    echo -e "\e[1;32mThere are still Chromium windows open. Not cleaning up yet.\e[0m"
fi

If anyone has a "softer" method of cleaning up processes, please tell.

Last edited by karabaja4 (2013-03-19 22:48:35)

replabrobin · 2013-03-20 21:37:27

Sometimes I find that pkill chromium doesn't clean up all the stay behinds. I need two rounds of pkill to get them all.

gripped · 2013-03-21 18:35:56

From the link from replabrobin in post #17

-Dlinux_use_tcmalloc=0

I compiled from ABS adding this in PKGBUILD in the gyp defines.
Tested with 75 loaded tabs across 3 windows and when I closed the windows no zombies at all.

Last edited by gripped (2013-03-21 18:54:07)

lnxsrt · 2013-03-23 00:32:56

gripped wrote:

From the link from replabrobin in post #17
-Dlinux_use_tcmalloc=0
I compiled from ABS adding this in PKGBUILD in the gyp defines.
Tested with 75 loaded tabs across 3 windows and when I closed the windows no zombies at all.

Yep, this fixed it for me as well.

lnxsrt · 2013-03-23 03:00:36

After a couple hours of browsing, I do now have a chromium process that I can't kill.

7283  0.2  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    20:42   0:09 [chromium] <defunct>

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