Chrome crashes when using multiple tabs?

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Kaiju

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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 said:
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.
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Buy more RAM. If you fill up all 16GBs of RAM and also your pagefile bad things are going to happen like that. On the plus side Black Friday is coming up so you might be able to pick up some cheap RAM.
 
Surely the most obvious answer it "close some of the tabs"?

How many tabs do you have open?

I have 8gb Ram on my machine and that often has 40 odd tabs open without any issues, plus running a game now and then, photoshop etc
 
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.
 
Plenty O'Toole said:
See how you get on with Firefox. Uses considerably less resources last time I checked.
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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.
 
find out with task maanger or something else where the memory is being used.
With FF+noscript on just 8GB of memory regularly have two FF's running each with 100+ tabs and 20 or 30 tabs loaded (bartab add-on only loads tabs you are using) and can run word/excel too.
If you have an ssd with a large pagefile will be just as good as more ram.(16GB of ram £50, 250GB ssd £70)
 
Kaiju said:
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.
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How many tabs have you got open before the issues start?
What else is running?

If you've got 5 tabs open and you're having issues then yes, it needs troubleshooting.
If you've got 100 tabs open + other software running that could be the problem.
 
Buying more ram isn't the answer here. You can browse Chrome with a hundred tabs open on 4GB ram.

Check Task Manager and give us screenshots.

I'd imagine it's misinformed pagefile settings causing the issue.
 
Cromulent said:
Buy more RAM.
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Kaiju said:
I'll have to pick up a 32GB kit.
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No don't - Just ignore this, as it's just wasteful spending.

Take a step back for a second and think about it.... 16GB of RAM just to browse the web... Before 64 bit machines could address more than 3.5GB of ram people still managed with multiple tabs - RAM isn't the issue here.

(* yes I know that websites are more complicated than they were but not by that much)


Kaiju said:
I have my pagefile set to 4GB and have 16GB of RAM.
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bledd said:
If you set the pagefile to 'System Managed', does it still happen?
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bledd said:
I'd imagine it's misinformed pagefile settings causing the issue.
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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.


Kaiju said:
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?
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Chrome works fine for me on a daily basis at work, with anywhere up to 40 or 50 tabs open, as well as several different Chrome windows with different user accounts.

Try the same thing without any extensions (e.g. including your OneTab).
 
bledd said:
I'd imagine it's misinformed pagefile settings causing the issue.
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Armageus said:
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.
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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?
 
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(I saw significant improvement in response time with page file on an ssd.)
Setting page file to system managed does let it grow to 3x ram size, so if you have a rogue program with a memory leak you will not identify it quickly before it has eaten a 48GB chunk of the disk (at which point you get low on memory warning)
If paging file is already 13.6 GB this sounds large and you should still look with task manager to identify the culprits.
 
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