People,
Until recently I have been using some old hardware for both my mail / list server and also as my workstation. Since Chrome is such a resource hog I was constantly keeping the number of windows and tabs as low as possible - which was generally working. I finally bought some new HW to use for the workstation and although it is faster when it is working, it seems to have MORE significant problems with Chrome (or something). On the old HW, if I overloaded it with Chrome, it would eventually grind to a halt, on the new HW, Chrome Tabs stop working when the hardware is hardly loaded at all! If I persist by using a "killall" on Chrome processes and restart Chrome, the workspace and maybe the whole workstation will eventually hang and I have to reboot. Sometimes this will happen while I am using the computer, other times Chrome has locked up sometime during the night . . I haven't been able to produce a sequence of steps that will reliably reproduce the problem. The hardware comparison is:
Old New
Motherboard Intel DG45ID Asus Z97-A CPU Intel 2 Quad CPU Q9505 @2.83GH Intel i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz RAM 4 * 2GB DDR2 Synchronous 800 MHz 4 * 8GB DDR3 Synchronous 1600 MHz
(I can supply output of lshw if anyone thinks it is useful).
I was expecting all my Chrome-induced HW problems to disappear - not get worse! Anyone got any ideas about debugging to find out what is going on?
Thanks,
Phil.