It's been the last two days that out of nowhere - my chromium/chrome browser is constantly crashing with the aw snap error / where firefox works without issue. I thought this might be related to an issue I was having with my last pass extension(as I was experiencing a known bug with their extension at this time). Since then I rebooted/disabled all my extensions and tested again - still the same issue happening constantly! Checked forums, confirmed in dmesg that I was running out of memory (I'm on a 16gb Dell XPS 13 with hardly any tabs open):
[20968.163307] Out of memory: Kill process 11700 (chromium-browse) score 304 or sacrifice child [20968.163312] Killed process 11700 (chromium-browse) total-vm:2017292kB, anon-rss:123152kB, file-rss:84092kB
Adding apt-cache policy:
chromium-browser:
Installed: 55.0.2883.87-0ubuntu0.16.04.1263
Candidate: 55.0.2883.87-0ubuntu0.16.04.1263
Version table:
*** 55.0.2883.87-0ubuntu0.16.04.1263 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
49.0.2623.108-0ubuntu1.1233 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
I then amended my swappiness from 60 to 10 following these instructions: How do I configure swappiness? Still had the same issue... Read another link about extending my minvmfreekbytes - where I increased it to 160mb : https://blog.kylemanna.com/linux/google-chrome-aw-snap/ ..still the same issue.. Can someone please help? It seemed to work fine for the last month and I have all my extensions set up so I want to avoid changing browser. Thanks
apt-cache policy chromium-browser
therefore. Thanks. – Byte Commander Jan 30 '17 at 00:22uname -r
)? This may be bug #1655842. – David Foerster Feb 04 '17 at 08:02