ichase Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 (edited) With Chromium running, I am seeing very high memory usage. When looking at HTOP, it's pointing to pepperflash. Here is the part that get's me. When I look at the plugins for Chromium, I am seeing 3 flash players all associated together. Adobe Flash, Shockwave Flash and Pepper Flash, but not listed separately so I can disable 2 of the 3. I'm not currently watching any videos but imagine some of my tabs do use them. Any ideas? Was expecting to see what I see in the above image broken down to be able to disable one or two of the other. Could this be as simple as just deleting a couple of them via the package manager? Though the location shows /usr/lib/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so for all 3. Edited February 15, 2015 by ichase Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 You are only seeing one plugin there, Ian. It's PepperFlash. What tabs are open in the browser and are they utilizing Flash? It's probably not a browser issue. It's a poorly coded Flash on some website that you're having issues with. Check the Chromium Task Manager to see precisely what's dragging on the resources. Options --> More Tools --> Task Manager Disregard the highlighted line in the image of the TM above. It was just where I clicked to bring that window to focus for the screenshot. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 I wish Flash would die. HTML5 can do most of it's functions now. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 You are only seeing one plugin there, Ian. It's PepperFlash. Correct. Pepperflash is labeled as Adobe Flash in google-chrome and like Eric said, it is probably a website's flash that is pulling all the resources Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichase Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 Thank you all for the education. I did not know that Chromium / Chrome had a built in Task Manager. That helped out immensely I think my problem was, I had A LOT of pin tabs. I just sent them to a bookmark folder. I'm right there with Sunrat, HTML5 can do everything that Flash can do and more than likely can do it while using far less resources. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Thank you all for the education. I did not know that Chromium / Chrome had a built in Task Manager. That helped out immensely I think my problem was, I had A LOT of pin tabs. I just sent them to a bookmark folder. I'm right there with Sunrat, HTML5 can do everything that Flash can do and more than likely can do it while using far less resources. Even with 40+ tabs, launching it shouldn't take very long at all(especially with a ssd). Reloading all the tabs takes much longer than opening the app. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichase Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 True, but if a few of those tabs are using flash, then that can increase memory usage which it was doing. With Chromium opened with all of my tabs, I was running at about 4 GB of RAM, getting rid of those tabs, I am running slightly over 1 GB of RAM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Well yeah, that is because of how Chrome/Chromium handles tabs. Each tab is a difference process so the more you have, the more ram you are using. I usually hover around 9 GB of ram usage but that is also about 40+ tabs (11 pinned tabs) and 4 screens of apps running. Now if I close the browser, my ram usage will go down to about 1.5-2 GB of ram. The browser uses far more ram than any other application but I am also doing a lot more in the browser. That said, unused memory is useless memory. I have 24gb of ram for a reason... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 To paraphrase a favorite southern saying... Flash just needs killin'. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichase Posted February 17, 2015 Author Share Posted February 17, 2015 To paraphrase a favorite southern saying... Flash just needs killin'. I can not even comment on this, all I can say is "What Eric said" I'm running 16 GB of RAM, that seems like plenty, but I get a little leary when I hit the 80% mark 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 I can not even comment on this, all I can say is "What Eric said" I'm running 16 GB of RAM, that seems like plenty, but I get a little leary when I hit the 80% mark No swap? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Software (in any OS) has the tendency to utilize increasing amounts of resources once they're made available. In other words, one my laptops that has 2Gig RAM utilizes 60% or so all the time. My main system has 4Gig and uses 60% or so all the time. My shop system has 6Gig and uses about 60% most of the time... et cetera... et cetera... et cetera... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Remember there is a big difference between used RAM and cached. My system shows ~80% used including cached, but is actually only using 34% (I have a lot open right now) - roger@brain:~$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3952 3173 779 16 288 1526 -/+ buffers/cache: 1357 2594 Swap: 2266 0 2266 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Remember there is a big difference between used RAM and cached. My system shows ~80% used including cached, but is actually only using 34% (I have a lot open right now) - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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