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I have started getting "out of memory" or similar errors, mainly in Chrome. Apparently this is a "thing".

However when I check with Task Manager the memory usage is generally
between 70% and 75%.
To my mind 25%-30% free should be enough head room.

Anyone else encountered this?

Cheers



Dave R
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David wrote:

I have started getting "out of memory" or similar errors, mainly in Chrome. Apparently this is a "thing".

However when I check with Task Manager the memory usage is generally
between 70% and 75%.
To my mind 25%-30% free should be enough head room.

Anyone else encountered this?

I don't use Chrome often enough that I'd notice, but between Firefox and Thunderbird, it's pretty common for 80% of memory to be in use, it's not brilliant that apps just gobble memory like that, but it's better that
Windows allows them to use the memory you've bought, rather than let it
sit unused ...

How many tabs do you have open? I you close Chrome and re-open it how
low does memory usage start at, and long does it take to get back to 75% ?
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On 23/06/2026 10:55, David wrote:

I have started getting "out of memory" or similar errors, mainly in Chrome. Apparently this is a "thing".

However when I check with Task Manager the memory usage is generally
between 70% and 75%.
To my mind 25%-30% free should be enough head room.

Anyone else encountered this?

Cheers

Dave R

How much memory do you have ? - and how much of the memory is being
used by the browser ?
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Abandoned Trolley wrote:

David wrote:

I have started getting "out of memory" or similar errors, mainly in

Chrome.

How much memory do you have ?-a - and how much of the memory is being
used by the browser ?

In my case (I'm not the O/P) 16GB and 5GB respectively.

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On 23/06/2026 12:17, Andy Burns wrote:

Abandoned Trolley wrote:

David wrote:

I have started getting "out of memory" or similar errors, mainly in

Chrome.

How much memory do you have ?-a - and how much of the memory is being
used by the browser ?

In my case (I'm not the O/P) 16GB and 5GB respectively.

OK

I have a Win 10 machine running as a guest under VBox

If I start Firefox and just go to the BBC home page and nothing else, it statrts 7 processes which are using up just over 350 MBytes, but barely
1% of the cpu


No Chrome on that machine
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Abandoned Trolley wrote:

If I start Firefox and just go to the BBC home page and nothing else, it statrts 7 processes which are using up just over 350 MBytes, but barely
1% of the cpu

I have 478 tabs open, but firefox is much better at quiescing background
tabs nowadays, cpu usage isn't much of a problem just 3-4%.
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On 23 Jun 2026 09:55:59 GMT, David wrote:

I have started getting "out of memory" or similar errors, mainly in Chrome. Apparently this is a "thing".

However when I check with Task Manager the memory usage is generally
between 70% and 75%.
To my mind 25%-30% free should be enough head room.

Anyone else encountered this?

Have you tried asking in alt.comp.os.windows-10? It's got active
posters.
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On 23/06/2026 10:55, David wrote:

I have started getting "out of memory" or similar errors, mainly in Chrome. Apparently this is a "thing".

However when I check with Task Manager the memory usage is generally
between 70% and 75%.
To my mind 25%-30% free should be enough head room.

Anyone else encountered this?

Cheers

Dave R

I am using Win 10/32 Pro with Edge and Thunderbird, plus occasional
use of Foxit/Lightroom/File Explorer though Lightroom prefers to be
solo-usage and sometimes gets in a tangle which I assume is a problem
with a cache somewhere.

It's slow but I can still use it.

Shutting it down seems to take a while though and after power-on
(I don't leave it in hibernate) it shows 100% disk for about 10
minutes, or longer if Edge has barged in with an update (ignoring
my settings to only install updates when I click on them !!).


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On Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:56:26 +0100, Abandoned Trolley wrote:

On 23/06/2026 10:55, David wrote:

I have started getting "out of memory" or similar errors, mainly in
Chrome.
Apparently this is a "thing".

However when I check with Task Manager the memory usage is generally
between 70% and 75%.
To my mind 25%-30% free should be enough head room.

Anyone else encountered this?

How much memory do you have ? - and how much of the memory is being
used by the browser ?

16 GB memory.

Chrome currently using 1.4 GB

Edge roughly 600 MB

Thunderbird roughly 820 MB

Memory at 70%
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David wrote:

16 GB memory.

Chrome currently using 1.4 GB

Edge roughly 600 MB

Thunderbird roughly 820 MB

Memory at 70%

If you launch Resource Monitor (easy from the Performance tab of Task
Manager) I think it was the same in Win10

On the Memory Tab, is should give you a breakdown

Hardware Reserved
In Use
Modified
Standby
Free

and

Available
Cached
Total
Installed

Might explain where the "missing" memory is?

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On Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:11:30 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:

David wrote:

16 GB memory.

Chrome currently using 1.4 GB

Edge roughly 600 MB

Thunderbird roughly 820 MB

Memory at 70%

If you launch Resource Monitor (easy from the Performance tab of Task Manager) I think it was the same in Win10

On the Memory Tab, is should give you a breakdown

Hardware Reserved In Use Modified Standby Free

and

Available Cached Total Installed

Might explain where the "missing" memory is?

Seems to be about 5 GB in standby and 150 MB free.
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On 23/06/2026 12:42, Andy Burns wrote:

I have 478 tabs open,

Really? I didn't think there were that many pages worth reading on the
entire internet!?

I don't think I've got that many bookmarks, let alone open tabs.
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Daniel James wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

I have 478 tabs open,

Really? I didn't think there were that many pages worth reading on the entire internet!?

Several of them would be to the same websites

I don't think I've got that many bookmarks, let alone open tabs.

It's not a good habit, but I've probably had 3 or 4x that number open
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