Excessive RAM use or is this normal?

Cythx · 12 Dec 2010 at 03:15

I've been getting messeges from windows recentley telling me I'm using too much RAM. Whenever I get these all I am usually running is WLMessenger, VLC, Chrome (3 windows, lots of tabs), Starcraft 2 and some programs from start up; nod32, steam, afterburner.

Anyway, here are the numbers:

After rebooot

Thanks for any help

Mr Krugga · 12 Dec 2010 at 03:15

Hello GD.

Too much porn I think.

Swifty123 · 12 Dec 2010 at 03:39

is it normal to have that many google chrome process's running?

arknor · 12 Dec 2010 at 03:48

wrong forum looks about normal although you have loads of procceses running in the first shot..

whats with chrome having so many and using a crap ton of ram?

Juggy1985 · 12 Dec 2010 at 08:15

This should help:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=17964840

It helped me.

Raumarik · 12 Dec 2010 at 08:24

From reboot Windows 7 should be using well less than a gig, if it's not then you have a problem. But using most of the ram when you are actually using the PC is simply efficient - although in your case it looks like Chrome is messed up, have you run Malwarebytes recently?

oli356 · 12 Dec 2010 at 08:25

Swifty123 said:
is it normal to have that many google chrome process's running?

Got 4 myself. Still uses far less RAM then firefox.

Ended one of the processes and chrome shut obviously. Opened chrome up again, two processes already. 46,356 + 14,656K memory used. Another tab, another process etc etc

iviv · 12 Dec 2010 at 09:19

Swifty123 said:
is it normal to have that many google chrome process's running?

Each tab runs as a seperate process, so if a page crashes the browser, it just takes down one tab rather than all of them. That looks like a bit of a memory leak though.

Duke · 12 Dec 2010 at 09:25

After reboot looks okay to me?

Substance · 12 Dec 2010 at 11:15

oli356 said:
Got 4 myself. Still uses far less RAM then firefox.

Using firefox atm and even with multiple tabs open and running a HD flash video I can't get it above 65mb, on chrome it looks like just one tab is 90mb+

I don't know what the hell it's doing but I would be tempted to try another browser for a bit and see if your problem goes away

oli356 · 12 Dec 2010 at 11:32

SuBsTaNcE said:
Using firefox atm and even with multiple tabs open and running a HD flash video I can't get it above 65mb, on chrome it looks like just one tab is 90mb+

I don't know what the hell it's doing but I would be tempted to try another browser for a bit and see if your problem goes away

After using firefox I sometimes was using 500mb up....and it became extremely slow. For me it's not a problem on chrome, 4GB of RAM for a reason anyway

MikeHunt79 · 12 Dec 2010 at 11:49

type about:memory in your address bar of Chrome then post that screenie plz.

Cythx · 12 Dec 2010 at 14:23

MikeHunt79 said:
type about:memory in your address bar of Chrome then post that screenie plz.

I am scanning with Malwarebytes now and I'm going to use that hotfix to see if it helps.

edit: Here's that MWB screen

leezer3 · 12 Dec 2010 at 20:12

I don't see much of a problem TBQH.
Running that amount of stuff at any one time will inevitably eat RAM, that's why you install as much as you can. Windows should use all the available RAM, and then shunt stuff out into the pagefile.

We need the actual text of the error message to see what's going on in detail though.
Two more likely fixes:
1. If you've manually setup the pagefile, set it back to Windows managed. If you eat all the physical memory and the pagefile, bad things will happen.
2. Try shifting the pagefile to a different drive, especially if you're low on space on your main drive.

-Leezer-