In FreeBSD-12.0-RELEASE, newly installed chromium via package: chromium-79.0.3945.130 I observe several issues: 1] It blocks for several seconds in many pages. 2] Viewing youtube videos at times the audio goes on but the video part locks. Points [1] and [2] appears to be similar to what is described here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1197898/chromium-freezes-intermittent-at-each-few-seconds 3] [FYI] At the beginning it was very slow, adding parameter "--use-gl=egl" performance is now better than pre-upgrade-state. 4] [FYI] At the beginning the browser was crashing very frequently, I cancelld my cache and cookies, now It does not crash anymore. 5] There are a lot of error messages like: [86593:261771264:0210/134536.648412:ERROR:child_process_sandbox_support_impl_linux.cc(79)] FontService unique font name matching request did not receive a response. => adding parameter "--no-sandbox" was not helpful. bye
How long have the issues been apparent? Is this a regression from the previous (79.0.3945.117) version or not? Also, please: - Include the output of pkg version -v (as an attachment) - Include the output of /var/run/dmesg.boot (as an attachment) - Try the performance tip in the FreeBSD wiki and report back on any changes in behaviour / symptoms: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Ports/www/chromium
Created attachment 211549 [details] dmesg
Created attachment 211550 [details] pkg-version
Hi, I attached the two files as asked. Consider that I am running FreeBSD ina VMWare virtual machine in a MacBook Pro 2014. So, I am kind of used to have a slow browser. But usually it does not crash or hangs. The issue stared one day ago when I upgraded the system and so also chrome. I am not aware of the version of my previous chrome pagkage unfortunately. Following the wiki i tried: exec /usr/local/share/chromium/chrome ${1:+"$@"} --disable-gpu Now it seems slower, it seems that YouTube audio-video-ansync is resolved but, the hanging problem remained. As I am typing this message (with no other browser window open) this window hanged once for a 5-6 seconds. I will tell you more in subsequent messages, I need some time to see how it behaves.
Hi, I did other tests, also on my network, my network is fine, the problem is in chromium. It gets stuck, this either if I use the "--disable-gpu" parameter or don't. It gets stuck on simple pages, like this one and complex one like GoogleDocuments. It "get's stuck" means that is freezes for a few seconds at its discretion. The only easy thing I still have not tried is to wipe out ~/.config/chromium. I am writing this from Firefox.
Greetings, I also have the same problem on some machines. It is likely GPU related. I also discovered that if you do a right click, it will 'unfreeze' chromium.
Hi, I confirm @yzrh findings. Right click unlocks the browser. It also unlocks the stalled video stream in Youtube. I observe that the same procedure work if running as: 'chrome --no-gpu'. bye n.
ERRATA-CORRIGE: 'chrome --disable-gpu'
The cause may be swiftshader. If I start chromium with --use-gl=egl, it does not seem to freeze.
To me the option "--use-gl=egl" did not solve it. But, my main FreeBSD desktop machine is a guest in VMWare, that may complicate my case.
On my machine with 8GB physical RAM and 8GB swap, I experience problems since the last upgrade from ports as well, but I didn't find the "smoking gun" yet to be sure it's because of chromium. What I observed so far is memory (and swap) usage continuously going up and the whole system stalling more and more frequently (probably because of I/O for swapping). As one of my chromium processes had a size of 11GB, and I couldn't reproduce this behavior so far without starting chromium (but I will do more tests to be sure), I assume it might be part of the issue.