While working on a project that fires up a whole bunch of headless Google Chrome tabs using Selenium Python, I noticed that my program would crash all the time due to a “tab crash” error.
At first I thought it was just a difference between Ubuntu and OS X since it seemed to work fine on my laptop. But after a little googling I came across a docker thread which seemed to be pretty similar to what I was experiencing.
Apparently the default mount size for /dev/shm may not be large enough if
Chrome has alot of tabs open (you check how many using $ lsof /dev/shm). To
increase the size:
$ sudo umount /dev/shm
$ sudo mount -t tmpfs -o rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=512M tmpfs /dev/shm