Chrome browser was frozen or hang after video playing over 7 hours

Dears,

It was found when playing video by chromium browser, after about 7 hours playing back, the browser consumes very big memory.

top - 04:53:48 up 6:32, 2 users, load average: 11.06, 10.98, 8.05
Tasks: 311 total, 2 running, 309 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 0.8 us, 12.9 sy, 0.0 ni, 8.7 id, 75.1 wa, 0.8 hi, 1.6 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem : 7951908 total, 85444 free, 7580856 used, 285608 buff/cache
KiB Swap: 3975936 total, 0 free, 3975936 used. 38356 avail Mem

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1007 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 25.2 0.0 5:08.88 kswapd0
8485 nvidia 20 0 1196212 78908 56024 D 4.9 1.0 175:04.66 chromium-browse
10369 root 20 0 2572 108 44 S 4.9 0.0 2:19.77 tegrastats
1963 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 4.3 0.0 0:49.98 mmc_cmdq_d/0
8511 nvidia 20 0 11.468g 2.856g 141700 D 4.0 37.7 356:29.17 chromium-browse
5982 root 20 0 24.222g 22312 7852 S 2.2 0.3 11:52.26 Xorg
5011 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 1.8 0.0 9:11.82 sugov:0
8449 nvidia 20 0 2712540 63336 19536 D 1.8 0.8 3:00.97 chromium-browse
5155 root 20 0 1449736 7032 0 S 1.2 0.1 0:27.54 containerd
6536 nvidia 20 0 885516 35184 7764 D 1.2 0.4 1:15.71 compiz
14901 nvidia 20 0 9264 1440 520 R 1.2 0.0 0:00.32 top
7072 nvidia 20 0 573916 3024 1884 S 0.9 0.0 0:39.98 python3
8488 nvidia 20 0 1109780 10540 104 S 0.6 0.1 3:57.60 chromium-browse
1284 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 1:52.51 irq/72-15200000
4554 avahi 20 0 6152 308 76 S 0.3 0.0 0:13.97 avahi-daemon
5521 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 2:27.60 nvgpu_channel_p

After 7 hours running, the browser frozen. if re-started browser and test again.
Whereas at beginning, it shows:
top - 05:03:49 up 6:42, 2 users, load average: 2.66, 4.29, 6.01
Tasks: 317 total, 1 running, 316 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 30.2 us, 7.5 sy, 0.0 ni, 61.2 id, 0.0 wa, 0.9 hi, 0.2 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem : 7951908 total, 5186820 free, 2000320 used, 764768 buff/cache
KiB Swap: 3975936 total, 3462544 free, 513392 used. 5600520 avail Mem

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
15109 nvidia 20 0 6063764 611768 232936 S 90.5 7.7 6:58.84 chromium-browse
15083 nvidia 20 0 1158776 185100 107200 S 43.3 2.3 3:02.84 chromium-browse
6371 nvidia 9 -11 1736152 8780 5244 S 3.9 0.1 15:20.01 pulseaudio
5982 root 20 0 24.222g 28512 9208 S 3.0 0.4 12:17.80 Xorg
5011 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 2.2 0.0 9:22.47 sugov:0
15341 nvidia 20 0 1199832 55768 43792 S 1.3 0.7 0:05.76 chromium-browse
15629 root 20 0 9264 3600 2796 R 1.3 0.0 0:03.75 top
965 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0.9 0.0 4:04.68 irq/67-host_syn
1266 root -2 0 0 0 0 D 0.9 0.0 2:40.79 tegradc.0/a
5521 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.9 0.0 2:31.00 nvgpu_channel_p

After 1 hour running:
top - 05:57:09 up 7:35, 2 users, load average: 2.28, 2.54, 2.79
Tasks: 316 total, 1 running, 315 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 32.3 us, 6.3 sy, 0.0 ni, 59.8 id, 0.1 wa, 1.1 hi, 0.3 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem : 7951908 total, 4294496 free, 2873784 used, 783628 buff/cache
KiB Swap: 3975936 total, 3463348 free, 512588 used. 4730536 avail Mem

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
15109 nvidia 20 0 6960892 1.399g 237780 S 99.7 18.4 56:43.86 chromium-browse
15083 nvidia 20 0 1166972 187340 107392 S 32.9 2.4 28:33.53 chromium-browse
6371 nvidia 9 -11 1736152 9252 5716 S 4.3 0.1 17:27.75 pulseaudio
5982 root 20 0 24.222g 28512 9208 S 3.3 0.4 13:57.54 Xorg
5011 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 2.6 0.0 10:29.76 sugov:0
965 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 1.3 0.0 4:40.10 irq/67-host_syn
15086 nvidia 20 0 971024 75872 57440 S 1.3 1.0 0:35.75 chromium-browse
15341 nvidia 20 0 1273564 56008 43988 S 1.3 0.7 0:48.55 chromium-browse
16120 root 20 0 9264 3736 2932 R 1.3 0.0 0:10.26 top
1266 root -2 0 0 0 0 D 0.7 0.0 3:04.40 tegradc.0/a
1284 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0.7 0.0 2:13.06 irq/72-15200000
5521 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.7 0.0 2:51.89 nvgpu_channel_p
15047 nvidia 20 0 2699788 186820 136872 S 0.7 2.3 0:30.11 chromium-browse

It seems to be chromium browser memory leak issue. Issue was found on version: chromium 86.0.4240.198 built in Jetpack4.5.1. please confirm this issue and fix plan. Thanks.

Regards,
weileng

Hi,
The browser is default so it might be something wrong in the specific version. You may try to upgrade to later version and try.

Besides, we have partner help enable hardware acceleration. You can take a look at
Chromium accelerated decoding for Jetson

Hi Dane

It’s one unstable version, more like one personal amateur trial. so what’s your solution? Thanks.

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