Hey peeps!
The other day I was on my desktop and windows 7 freaked out and said it was low on memory and asked me if I wanted to close a program, seeing as I have 6 gig of ram (3x 2gig sticks in tri chan) and I only had winamp and internet explorer open I was obviously quite confused.
I opened task manager and in the performance section I could see I was using 5.9 gig of ram, I then switched to the processes and saw nearly all of that 5.9 gig being used for one single window of internet explorer which was idle on a fully loaded wikipedia page.
So far this has been a one off occurrence but I am very curious to know what could cause something like this.
Yes I could just not worry about it and yes I could use firefox instead but I have more interest in learning =)
I did also take screenshots as I was slightly amazed.
Ideas??? Thanks ahead of time for any help.
The other day I was on my desktop and windows 7 freaked out and said it was low on memory and asked me if I wanted to close a program, seeing as I have 6 gig of ram (3x 2gig sticks in tri chan) and I only had winamp and internet explorer open I was obviously quite confused.
I opened task manager and in the performance section I could see I was using 5.9 gig of ram, I then switched to the processes and saw nearly all of that 5.9 gig being used for one single window of internet explorer which was idle on a fully loaded wikipedia page.
So far this has been a one off occurrence but I am very curious to know what could cause something like this.
Yes I could just not worry about it and yes I could use firefox instead but I have more interest in learning =)
I did also take screenshots as I was slightly amazed.
Ideas??? Thanks ahead of time for any help.
