Sine some weeks I'm regularly running out of RAM. I'm using Win 7 64 bit with 8 GB of RAM
I am not running a huge amount of programs only skype, spotify and chrome but my RAm usage is always at around 80% wich was different some months ago.
Windows constantly tells me it has to close skype or some other program because it's running out of RAM.
The problem is it is not one particular program that is using up the RAM neither it's the combination of them. When I sum up the memory usage of all tasks I end up with about 1.2 GB.
I tried closing all programs and RAM usage was still at ~55% (>5GB)
I have tried running some anti Virus software but it didn't help.
Is there any way I can find out why RAM usage is so high and how can I change this. I know it all used to work before and for some reason windows is just wasting ram for no real reason.
Answer
Chrome is a memory hungry program. The more tabs you have open, the more ram it will consume.
That said, with 8 GB of ram, you definitely should not get memory messages.
This means one of the following things may be going wrong.
Windows creates a swapfile to store swap memory in. This file, by default, is located on your C drive, root. If there is little space left, (less than 2 gb) the swapfile is not getting big enough and windows may give this error. So check where the swapfile is located and if there's sufficient space left.
It may be that one of your RAM banks has gone bad. You can do an extensive memory test to make sure they're working correctly.
And in case that doesn't do it either, I've seen something in windows gone bad (was unable to find any cause, but this error would pop up with not any program open either, no virusses or spyware or anything on the machine, no processes open) and a windows reinstall fixed it. You could attempt to do that if all else fails.
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