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All I know is my Win 10 Pro laptop has 16gb RAM, yet if an application, most likely Google Chrome, uses more than about 4-5gb, it crashes. Yep, it's a lot of t
by listenallyall 5y ago
All I know is my Win 10 Pro laptop has 16gb RAM, yet if an application, most likely Google Chrome, uses more than about 4-5gb, it crashes.
Yep, it's a lot of tabs. But not as many as you think, and often without warning, as certain ad-heavy sites, especially forum sites (flyertalk, rennlist), can sometimes require 1gb RAM alone.
- asdff 5y agoAll the more reason to install serious ad blockers not found with Chrome and to install extensions that deal with old tabs instead of letting them pollute your memory
- listenallyall 5y agoI disagree for a few reasons. First, why is the memory limit so low? Like I said, 16gb RAM, yet using just 30% of that total is too much? Secondly, I simply don't believe it is entirely ethical to consume all of the content with none of the ads. I deal with the egregious ad situation by visiting those sites infrequently -- visiting once every few months as opposed to every day, or skipping those links when they appear in a search result. But most sites, I believe it is a fair tradeoff to view an ad or two in order to read their site. Third, I would likely reach the memory limit without any greatly offending tabs... Google Maps is a big memory hog, many government sites are as well, and more.
- asdff 5y agoIf they want me to view their ads, all they have to do is make them less hostile to me such that they don't get blocked :)
- yyyk 5y ago>yet if an application, most likely Google Chrome, uses more than about 4-5gb, it crashes. 64bit apps shouldn't have such a limit under Windows, and can definitely use more memory. Perhaps you're seeing a case of RAM gone bad (where the large apps are much more likely to trip over the bad location)? Consider running memtest.