Google Drive crashes system

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yedidel
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Google Drive crashes system

Post#1 by yedidel » 13 Aug 2015, 10:30

Hi,

I have discovered Porteus this week, its great! Allows me working anywhere without needing to carry my laptop along...

However I have one major problem. I am using Porteus with Google Chrome. Everything works pretty good except Google Drive. Everytime I open it the computer comes to a freeze for 15 seconds, after that I can work very very slowly until I close it.
Memory usage is high for the Google Drive tab (as it usually is), but so is in GMail and it doesn't behave the same. Also I use "top" command and don't see lack of memory.
Strange thing it happens only on the main page of Drive. If I open a document, and then close the Drive browser, things get back to normal.

I am using a computer with 2GB ram and another 2GB swap file. This computer runs Drive fast and good with Chrome on Windows.

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Re: Google Drive crashes system

Post#2 by neko » 13 Aug 2015, 11:56

The latest version of Google chrome is 44.0.2403.155-1.
If yours is not, please update and try again.

"How to get latest version of Google chrome module"
Please refer to
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php? ... 571#p33571

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Re: Google Drive crashes system

Post#3 by yedidel » 16 Aug 2015, 08:53

Upgrading chrome didn't solve it.
Its not a temporary freeze, the system becomes completely unusuable until I get to close the Google Drive tab (takes me about 10min to reach terminal with Ctrl+shift+f2 and kill it)

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Re: Google Drive crashes system

Post#4 by Bogomips » 16 Aug 2015, 11:33

yedidel wrote:system becomes completely unusuable until I get to close the Google Drive tab (takes me about 10min to reach terminal with Ctrl+shift+f2 and kill it)
See if magic SysRq is a bit quicker, should it work: Alt+SysRq+f :)
Linux porteus 4.4.0-porteus #3 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 23 07:01:55 UTC 2016 i686 AMD Sempron(tm) 140 Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2) MemTotal: 901760 kB MemFree: 66752 kB

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Re: Google Drive crashes system

Post#5 by brokenman » 16 Aug 2015, 20:38

I have no troubles with this using Porteus v3.1 64bit and chrome Version 39.0.2171.99 (64-bit).
How do i become super user?
Wear your underpants on the outside and put on a cape.

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Re: Google Drive crashes system

Post#6 by yedidel » 18 Aug 2015, 14:28

I switched to Firefox and now its working much much better :)

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