Comment # 2 on bug 1041099 from Iakov Karpov

(In reply to Tom���� Chv��tal from comment #1)
> What I can see is that the limit for them is 4096.
> max user processes              (-u) 4096
> 
> Also I don't think this is chromium bug. Something must loop on your system.
> 
> ATM I have open 4 chromium windows each with at least 20 tabs and I get 800
> running processes for the whole user.

I don't think there is something wrong with chromium, but it's what causes the
problem in my case. But after recent chromium updates I was unable to open as
may tabs as I used to, so I started digging. And I found out that my system is
reaching process limit. I don't know why it was limited to 1200, but i'm pretty
sure that I did not set it, I didn't even know how to set limits before this.
I've checked my laptop, and it had same limit. So, I assumed that it was the
default setting.

As for processes, average number of user threads on my system is about
950-1100. This includes KDE + chromium + firefox (yes, i use them both) +
kontact with akonadi + kopete + steam + goldendict + other stuff like file
managers, few konsole sessions, etc.