As noted in IRC, paste full process list when it's happening, since none of the chromium processes in the "grep" list are misbehaving.
$ ps axfwww And get the end of dmesg $ dmesg |tail -n 50 Also, the vm swappiness might already be set to "10". It happened at default 60 at least once. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1642413 Title: Chromium uses ~100% of all cores, locks up, and does not exit correctly To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1642413/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs