EXexikyut·Apr 28, 2020
Hmm.
"Depending on the content in tabs". Might be interesting to graph the leak rate (in KB/min or MB/min) and maybe either record the screen or limit to one or two websites at a time to narrow down what causes the most issues. Besides video playback, CSS animations come to mind as a potential source of GLX acceleration caused by random/mainstream websites.
Now I'm wondering what would happen if you fired up multiple tabs with stuff from https://www.shadertoy.com/, https://experiments.withgoogle.com/collection/chrome, https://webglsamples.org/, etc >:)
Virtual context creation+release could indeed be the problem. FWIW https://github.com/cyrus-and/chrome-remote-interface makes using Chrome's remote debug protocol (to open and close tabs) utterly trivial; or you could just run multiple concurrent browsers with --user-data-dir=somewhere (pro
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bably actually much easier to work with).
Chromium aside, another potentially useful trigger may be Unity games - the last(/first/only) time I tried to fire one up my laptop (i5-3360M + HD Graphics 3000) I was scrambling for ^C^C^C while everything slowed to a crawl and the system climbed (impressively quickly) past 97°C ;) (thankfully(!) nothing froze - thanks for the Intel lockup reference), so perhaps that could be a very effective trigger.
I'll keep your email address in mind; email is a bit of a long-term sore point due to Gmail constantly slowing everything to a crawl, and I'm currently using 8GB of swap (need to close some tabs) so I replied here so I could respond in a timely manner.