Memory bloat occurs even when not actively in use...
Reported by
mark.leb...@gmail.com,
Aug 26 2016
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.0 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. install Chrome canary on any iMac 2. navigate to google news or twitter 3. walk away and return 5-10 hrs later 4, google helper will hve sucked up 25 -50 gig on ram even if you only have 8, 16, 32 gig on your machine. It is insatiable. What is the expected behavior? maybe default 1 gig ram, with configurable limit in settings What went wrong? machine unresonsive..had to kill google chrome helper to regain any control of machine.. Did this work before? No Chrome version: 54.0.2840.0 Channel: canary OS Version: OS X 10.11.6 Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 22.0 r0 seems to be a flaw in current chrome also...
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Aug 30 2016
brajkumar@ - what data do you have that this is storage API related? Google Chrome Helper is apparently plugin related. Beyond that I don't know anything about it. What pointed you at storage?
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Aug 31 2016
Oops, cc'ing brajkumar@ to ask the question in comment #2.
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Aug 31 2016
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Aug 31 2016
I'm not sure we know for a fact if its a plugin process or a regular renderer, i think they both have that same name. Ditto question in #2 about whether this is really storage related?
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Sep 6 2016
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Sep 6 2016
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Sep 6 2016
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Sep 6 2016
i left google news open overnight on windows (32bit chrome build) without incident, i'll leave a macbook air open today and see what happens.
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Sep 7 2016
So I removed the advanced 'hardware acceleration' setting and have not seen the problem recently ... I thought my iMac had a resident GPU but I was mistaken.. this option will tell you if your computer has GPU support or not... chrome://gpu/ --> o set hardware acceleration when available.
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Sep 7 2016
Followup on c#9, the probelem did not repro on the macbook air (mid 2012 model) running OSX El Capitan, after staying up overnight its using a reasonable about of memory. On this system, everything in about:gpu is accelerated except for one item Rasterization: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled Tweeking component labels.
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Sep 15 2016
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "msrchandra@chromium.org" for another review and adding "Needs-Review" label for tracking. For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
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Sep 15 2016
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Oct 7 2016
[mac triage] Can a GPU person take a look. There seem to be a lot of vague "leak in GPU process" bugs - Issue 638602 - Issue 579417 - Issue 550656 - Issue 527509 - Issue 470234 - Issue 474030 Often these are hardware-specific mark.leberer@gmail.com: Could you save the contents of chrome://gpu/ and upload to this bug?
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Oct 7 2016
I'm not familiar with GPU things. kbr@: Would you find an owner for this?
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Oct 7 2016
50GB sounds really suspicious. My opinion is that chrome helper on Mac is not tracking the memory that is freed on GPU. We have another bug saying that Google chrome helper doesn't report memory usage well enough: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=474030 Ken, could you take a look whether this is a dup.
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Oct 7 2016
I routinely leave Chrome open for a week or more on my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) with NVIDIA GPU and have never seen an issue like this. Maybe there's a bug with the specific AMD GPU in this iMac. We have observed one graphics driver bug impacting just the GPUs in some older iMacs, but it wasn't related to a VRAM leak. Please provide about:gpu information from the affected system as well as a screenshot of Chrome's Task Manager in addition to the Activity Monitor. Chrome's Task Manager provides the names (like "GPU Process") of the sub-processes. Please right-click on the tab strip in Chrome's Task Manager and turn on the "GPU Memory" heading, as well.
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Nov 9 2016
ericrk@ could you take a look?
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Nov 17 2016
This doesn't seem to reproduce on my local machine - there may be a very slight memory growth (on the order of MBs, not GBs) - I'll leave Chrome open another few hours to make sure. mark.leberer@, can you provide the contents of about:gpu as well as information from Chrome's task manager (see kbr@'s comment in #17). manoranjanr@, does the test lab have an iMac on which we can try to repro? Sounds like we just need to open Chrome up with news.google.com and leave it for ~10hrs, then check out the memory usage (see #1).
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Nov 22 2016
ericrk@, Sure, i am trying out this today and will post the update soon. Thank you!
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Nov 23 2016
I am also not able to reproduce this on iMac with the below chrome://gpu for chrome#57.0.2926.0. I left the news.google.com tab open for more than ~20 hrs and didn't notice 'Google Chrome Helper' memory spike. Thank you!
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Nov 29 2016
mark.leberer@, are you able to navigate to "about:gpu" and paste/attach the contents? We're having trouble reproducing, and that info will help us better match your system. Thanks!
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Dec 17 2016
Without additional information (or a repro), not sure there's much we can do here. Closing this out. Please re-open if this is re-encountered. |
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Comment 1 by brajkumar@chromium.org
, Aug 30 2016