Chrome crashes when using multiple tabs?

[Kaiju]

Windows 10 64bit, when I fill up my RAM, the computer starts to slowdown till tabs don't work and then the browser freezes up.

I use OneTab but sometimes i'm too late and just wondering is there anything else I can do?

I have my pagefile set to 4GB and have 16GB of RAM.

 

[Kaiju]

I'm just trying to figure out if it's a software issue or hardware.

Is there a better alternative than Chrome for multi-tab usage?

I'll have to pick up a 32GB kit.

Thanks.

 

[Kaiju]

See how you get on with Firefox. Uses considerably less resources last time I checked.

Good shout, I did some research and it seems Firefox is much better at multi-tabs.

Just did a quick 5 minute session in both Chrome and FF and Chrome was far more fluid in opening images and videos while Firefox was laggy. FF was updated too. I don't think I'm willing to exchange multi-tab stability over a laggy usage experience.

I'll get the 32GB kit. My mobo only supports up to 2200mhz (2133mhz), can I still use 2400mhz or will I have to downclock them to 2133mhz?

Currently using a [email protected] Sandy on a Biostar TP67XE.

 

[Kaiju]

I'd imagine it's misinformed pagefile settings causing the issue.

100% agree with this - either leave it as system managed, or if you must statically assign it for some reason, then make sure you allocate more pagefile than you have ram (i.e. so that all of the RAM is backed by pagefile, with some extra space). Windows can and will swap, regardless of whether you think you have enough RAM.

Many thanks for that, after changing the pagefile to system managed, everything works fine, I even spammed YouTube vids and articles from news websites and Chrome and the rest of the PC stayed responsive.

One problem, my C: drive with Windows on it is only 60GB and the pagefile took up 13.6GB which left around 50MB left LOL.

Should I move the pagefile to my other SSD I use for games, which has 30GB of free space?