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  Windows 10 - browsers struggling for memory at 75% utilisation David <wibble@btinternet.com> - 2026-06-23 09:55 +0000
    Re: Windows 10 - browsers struggling for memory at 75% utilisation Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-06-23 11:30 +0100
    Re: Windows 10 - browsers struggling for memory at 75% utilisation Abandoned Trolley <that.bloke@microsoft.com> - 2026-06-23 11:56 +0100
      Re: Windows 10 - browsers struggling for memory at 75% utilisation Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-06-23 12:17 +0100
        Re: Windows 10 - browsers struggling for memory at 75% utilisation Abandoned Trolley <that.bloke@microsoft.com> - 2026-06-23 12:24 +0100
          Re: Windows 10 - browsers struggling for memory at 75% utilisation Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-06-23 12:42 +0100
            Re: Windows 10 - browsers struggling for memory at 75% utilisation Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2026-06-30 17:26 +0100
              Re: Windows 10 - browsers struggling for memory at 75% utilisation Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-06-30 17:23 +0100
      Re: Windows 10 - browsers struggling for memory at 75% utilisation David <wibble@btinternet.com> - 2026-06-24 11:17 +0000
        Re: Windows 10 - browsers struggling for memory at 75% utilisation Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-06-24 13:11 +0100
          Re: Windows 10 - browsers struggling for memory at 75% utilisation David <wibble@btinternet.com> - 2026-06-24 15:35 +0000
    Re: Windows 10 - browsers struggling for memory at 75% utilisation "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2026-06-23 16:40 +0200
    Re: Windows 10 - browsers struggling for memory at 75% utilisation Andrew <Andrew97d@btinternet.com> - 2026-06-23 15:49 +0100

#60683 — Windows 10 - browsers struggling for memory at 75% utilisation

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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#60684

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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#60685

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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#60686

Abandoned Trolley wrote:

> David wrote:
> >> I have started getting "out of memory" or similar errors, mainly in
>> Chrome.
> 
> How much memory do you have ?  - 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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#60687

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 ?  - 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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#60688

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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#60698

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.

-- 
Cheers,
  Daniel.

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#60699

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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#60691

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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#60692

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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#60693

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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#60689

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.

-- 
s|b

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#60690

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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