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Ok - I tried this. Think we are finally making progress about where the swap is going.Is it cleaned up when you restart the browser?
So first of all I shut down the large Chromium instance (killed the main process via htop, which made the browser instance disappear, relevant below). What happened to swap usage? Surprisingly nothing!
But then I started looking at htop, I noticed there were other processes still running in htop starting with "chrome -something-something". I tried by luck by killing them (there were many, I reckon more than 50 at least) and viola - it reduced active swap usage from 7.75GB (almost full) to 700 MB when I got rid of every single chrome process!
SWAP was redeemed - I think these Chromium processes are the culprit.
So quick question:
1) Why are these "extra" processes (since they didn't close with the Chromium instance) hanging around after closing of the browser instance?
2) Is a possible solution to my swap full usage issue - to keep killing these extra processes from htop? Or is there a better alternative? (killing them one by one can be a pain)
I think I tried to see it even when the system load was manageable - still yielded nothing.It may take some time for window content to appear entirely as it should. The waiting period, after resizing a window, may be longer if the system is noticeably busy.
That said, I don't recall ever seeing an amount used (i.e.more than zero) with zero processes listed.