Firefox Taking A Lot Of Memory
You are right of course, I have 4 GB of ram. I went on Crucial and ran the compatibility scanner and, among others, an 8GB chip was recommended. I take it if you have two slots that it isn't good to have 8 in one and 4 in the other.Just be sure it is a single 4GB with a spare slot free for an additional 4GB sodim and not 2 x 2GB filling two slots.
Firefox Taking A Lot Of Memory Care
CPU-Z will help you with that. Maybe the Crucial scanner detected your configuration I have not used it myself.You can use 4GB + 8GB sodims to give you 12GB without problem but they should have the same speed ratings.
Why spend the extra for an 8GB sodim when an extra 4GB would be sufficient.Now if you have 2 x 2GB they would need replacing with either 2 x 4GB or 1 x 8GB to get you the 8GB you are looking for. Just be sure what you need before purchase to save yourself some headache. Interesting, when I closed Firefox and restarted Chrome, the physical memory usage dropped to the mid 50's.
However after opening and closing a few tabs, the usage began creeping up. Now at 74%, my guess the next stop will shortly be over 80%.
I suppose I can always shut down and reopen Chrome every time it begins to get overloaded but that seems a bit cumbersome. There has to be a better way.based on what you said, opening and closing tabs caused memory usage to go up, it is 90% gonna be a memory leak. To be honest i dont know the deets of memory leaks, but the predominant problem is that memory usage continues to rise even when your not asking anymore of the process.
So opening a new tab should increase usage, but closing it should get rid of that extra usage. However, with a memory leak, the usage wont drop, it will stay. So opening and closing tabs will slowly build memory usage without allowing it to fall. I had this problem with a game client.
The client would use nearly 2G of ram. And if i repeatedly opened and closed it i could get it to reach 3-4. Reinstall fixed it. I had the same issue for a long time on my desktop w/Win8.1 and 4GB. Before I had easily 20 tabs in Chrome open, now I am at end of my RAM with 10 tabs open.
And the machine started swapping all the time with disk use at 100%.A lot of research I did and found nothing that helped.Today i spent some time on the issue and tried to remember what the turning point was - it might have been replacing the 32bit Chrome with the beta of the 64bit version some time ago. I deleted the 64bit version and installed the 32bit version. Much better performance. Disk activity very low.