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Thread ID: 139345	2015-04-17 23:15:00	Browsers continually crashing: window says Computer low on memory (RUBBISH!!)	kioti (17360)	Press F1

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1398818	2015-04-17 23:15:00	Hi, Past 3 to 4 weeks I am forever getting a flashing warning icon in Task bar and popup window either telling me to close Firefox/ Chrome/Safari,,,,whatever Browser I am using. The popup says Computer low on memory. I have 4GB DDR2 SDRAM 800 and I thought I had 5GB of Virtual memory but a test using AIDA64 Extreme shows I have 8.537GB. I could say that the problems have only started since I updated FFox to v37 and Adobe Flash Player to v17.0.0.134 (NPAPI) but the other two Browsers I named get the same thing happening.....so its not solely FFox problem. I mentioned the problem to a friend and said I think the prob is in my Paging/Swap files and I was advised to delete everything in C:Windows/Prefetch which I did. That didn't fix the problem. Here is what AIDA64 shows in Memory Section: Physical Memory Total 4094 MB Used 2654 MB Free 1440 MB Utilization 65 % Swap Space Total 4443 MB Used 3741 MB Free 702 MB Utilization 84 % Virtual Memory Total 8537 MB Used 6395 MB Free 2142 MB Utilization 75 % Paging File Paging File C:\pagefile.sys Initial / Maximum Size 1000 MB / 4000 MB Current Size 349 MB Current / Peak Usage 349 MB / 349 MB Utilization 100 % Physical Address Extension (PAE) Supported by Operating System Yes Supported by CPU Yes Active Yes .................................................. .................................................. ................. I considered upgrading to 8GB DDR2 1066......if I can get DDR2 now. Any help that you can offer will be appreciated thanks Here are my computer specs: Gigabyte Mobo GA-MA74GM-s2 v4 AMD Athlon II X4 630 2.8 Quadcore RAM: 2x2GB Adata DDR2 800 SDRAM (400MHz) (Matched pair) Graphics: Gigabyte GeForce 8500 GT Cooler Master 550W PSU Op System: Windows 7 x64 Professional Fully updated. Storage: Drive Drive Type File System Total Size Used Space Free Space % Free Volume Serial C: Local Disk NTFS 152484 MB 152079 MB 405 MB 0 % A4F8-511F D: Optical Drive E: (System Reserved) Local Disk NTFS 99 MB 70 MB 29 MB 29 % 3247-0D09 F: (Space) Local Disk NTFS 100044 MB 99649 MB 394 MB 0 % D3BB-CA30 G: (MUSIC) Local Disk NTFS 453498 MB 452280 MB 1217 MB 0 % E2CF-750C H: Local Disk NTFS 400209 MB 399297 MB 911 MB 0 % 86E0-71A0 I: (Seagate Expansion Drive) Local Disk NTFS 1863 GB 1858 GB 4 GB 0 % 0A49-C685 (This is added internally as the USB PCB in the External box stuffed up) As I mentioned I think problem is in Paging File...and as you can see, my dear C:Drive is chocker full having 405MB free space....no room to move in there. Thanks in advance.	kioti (17360)
1398819	2015-04-18 00:55:00	Think you've answered your own question The swap file (virtual memory), which is on your C drive will show warnings of low memory (regardless of how much ram you've got) because your C drive is full, easiest fix is to buy a bigger HDD, or move at least 10 % of your data off your system HDD.	feersumendjinn (64)
1398820	2015-04-18 00:59:00	Not only "C" Drive but the whole Drive ,stick all your music on an external drive and resize your "C"Drive to give yourself some breathing space	Lawrence (2987)
1398821	2015-04-18 01:03:00	Update FF and flash. FF is now 37.01 and flash is up to 17.0.0.169. The update is at the bottom of this page (helpx.adobe.com) Use something like ccleaner (http://www.ccleaner.com) to remove temp files etc	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1398822	2015-04-18 05:15:00	Think you've answered your own question The swap file (virtual memory), which is on your C drive will show warnings of low memory (regardless of how much ram you've got) because your C drive is full, easiest fix is to buy a bigger HDD, or move at least 10 % of your data off your system HDD. +1 Hard drive full. Ram is not relevant to swap space.	pctek (84)
1398823	2015-04-18 06:03:00	You should never run the C: drive that full, it'll slow your whole system down as well as give you the error you're seeing. Time for a cleanup like others have said. You can move the page file to another drive as a quick fix but it looks like they are all full so you'd have to add one. Run windows disk cleanup tool and/or Ccleaner but you'd need to free up space to even install it. Uninstall any programs you don't need anymore if you can. windows.microsoft.com	dugimodo (138)
1398824	2015-04-18 08:50:00	Get rid of your swap/paging, 4gb ram should be OK to work with unless you're heavy in graphics, video/sound processing. That'll free 4gb and improve hard drive access times. That tool is saying what? Swap, virtual memory? Anyone care to explain what those are? I understood virtual, swap and paging to be the same term but this is suggesting something different. Be time to invest in a bigger hard drive though. Cheers, KK	Kame (312)
1398825	2015-04-18 11:24:00	Get rid of your swap/paging, 4gb ram should be OK to work with unless you're heavy in graphics, video/sound processing. That'll free 4gb and improve hard drive access times. Er... no. I would not recommend doing that.	pcuser42 (130)
1398826	2015-04-18 21:26:00	Why pcuser42? Using your hard drive as swap is literally crazy and slow unless its SSD then never mind. I have never had a swap file when using over 2GB of RAM, but as computers become more demanding, your RAM usually goes up in that time too. I don't know when you last had an out of memory error but the issue here sounds more hard drive space low, a paging file needs to expand and can't. Get rid of it, force your computer to use the faster RAM and more of it. If it can't handle that, then you know you need more RAM, not a larger swap file to counter it. Cheers, KK	Kame (312)
1398827	2015-04-19 00:29:00	+1 Ram is not relevant to swap space. I never said it was, try reading what I wrote The swap file (virtual memory), which is on your C drive will show warnings of low memory (regardless of how much ram you've got) because your C drive is full, :annoyed:	feersumendjinn (64)
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