Thanks for the thoughts. I did mess around a fair bit with swap sizes and turning zram on and off but it made no difference.I see the same problem as the OP.
I run `journalctl -f` in a terminal window and can see that Chromium is killed by the kernel out of memory killer.
I tried doubling swap from the default 2GB to 4GB but it did not help; I still see Chromium pages die. I edited swap.conf like this:After a reboot both 'zramctl' and 'free -m' report that my Pi has 4GB swap but the pages crashes continue.Code:
#Mechanism=autoMechanism=zram+file[File]#Path=/var/swap#RamMultiplier=1#MaxSizeMiB=2048MaxSizeMiB=4096#MaxDiskPercent=50#FixedSizeMiB=[Zram]#RamMultiplier=1#MaxSizeMiB=2048MaxSizeMiB=4096#FixedSizeMiB=# Writeback settings (for zram+file mechanism):#WritebackTrigger=auto#WritebackInitialDelay=180min#WritebackPeriodicInterval=24h
As of the morning I have a new v ersion of chromium and the problem "appears" to have disappeared.
Code:
Version 141.0.7390.122 (Official Build) built on Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) (64-bit)Statistics: Posted by Mark_F — Tue Oct 28, 2025 12:32 am