sammy2 Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 I opened 20 tabs in IE11 and already my 8gb of RAM is giving a warning ... why ? When I start up my computer it uses 3.5gb of RAM by default... this is insane. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1167295-why-is-ram-usage-so-high-on-windows-8/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisj1968 Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 I think most browsers have gone to using multiple instances when you use tabs. Something to do with preventing one instance from crashing your browser. Something like that. I get 6 instances on chrome with 6 tabs.the first one usually runs 150mb itself Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1167295-why-is-ram-usage-so-high-on-windows-8/#findComment-595842571 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZakO Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Post a screenshot of task manager on the details tab sorted by Memory Usage. Something sounds very wrong, I'm on Windows 8, 8GB RAM, multiple applications open (Visual Studio, Sublime Text, Chrome + 35 Tabs) and it's using less than 3GB. An operating system using most of your memory (for caching, etc.) is good, unused memory is wasted memory... but if it's showing error messages something is wrong. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1167295-why-is-ram-usage-so-high-on-windows-8/#findComment-595842575 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammy2 Posted July 27, 2013 Author Share Posted July 27, 2013 16 Tabs - and you can see the other small tabs I have open.. I hate how huge the default usage is...it is enough to make me want to return to windows 7. I Need to have multiple tabs open most times ... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1167295-why-is-ram-usage-so-high-on-windows-8/#findComment-595842587 Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKay Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 I think something is badly wrong with your IE. I ran Chrome and IE with 15 tabs each, and while IE uses much more RAM than Chrome did, it's nowhere near your level of RAM usage. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1167295-why-is-ram-usage-so-high-on-windows-8/#findComment-595842591 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xendrome Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Depends on the content he is loading in the IE tabs. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1167295-why-is-ram-usage-so-high-on-windows-8/#findComment-595842599 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buendia Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Check plugins you have installed in IE, maybe they are the culprit. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1167295-why-is-ram-usage-so-high-on-windows-8/#findComment-595842603 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vcfan Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 I think something is badly wrong with your IE. I ran Chrome and IE with 15 tabs each, and while IE uses much more RAM than Chrome did, it's nowhere near your level of RAM usage. Untitled.png what are those chrome processes at the bottom? are they the tabs? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1167295-why-is-ram-usage-so-high-on-windows-8/#findComment-595842613 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajua Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Try to open different websites in those tabs. Some sites can make browsers use lots of RAM or crash. If other sites keep IE using that amount of RAM, something is defitinely wrong. Try disabling plugins one by one and see if this solves it. I see you are using AdBlock for IE (I guess thats the AdBlock Plus Engine process for). Disable it as well. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1167295-why-is-ram-usage-so-high-on-windows-8/#findComment-595842623 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambroos Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 what are those chrome processes at the bottom? are they the tabs? Yep. Chrome splits nearly everything into a process (which makes it quite stable in case of crashes). For five tabs (one with Flash): Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1167295-why-is-ram-usage-so-high-on-windows-8/#findComment-595842627 Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarkWiz Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 I opened lot of heavy content websites with 35 tabs, but could hardly get till 1.3 GB memory usage. IE11 RTM hasn't been released yet, if you are running Windows 8.1 or developer preview build of IE11 than it must be some bug. I would suggest reverting it to IE10. Make sure that all the Microsoft updates have been applied. Also it could be something to do with the addons/toolbars that are loaded with the browser. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1167295-why-is-ram-usage-so-high-on-windows-8/#findComment-595842629 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torolol Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 exorcise your IE, after a week re-install from downloaded installer from Microsoft site. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1167295-why-is-ram-usage-so-high-on-windows-8/#findComment-595842635 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vcfan Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Yep. Chrome splits nearly everything into a process (which makes it quite stable in case of crashes). For five tabs (one with Flash): oh ok. yeah ie does the same. if a tab crashes,it doesnt bring the whole house down. same with plugins. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1167295-why-is-ram-usage-so-high-on-windows-8/#findComment-595842651 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrakeN2k Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 I find Google chrome to using up more and more memory. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1167295-why-is-ram-usage-so-high-on-windows-8/#findComment-595842661 Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKay Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 vcfan, on 28 Jul 2013 - 00:04, said: what are those chrome processes at the bottom? are they the tabs? Those processes at the bottom for Chrome are all my addons and extensions. I think the tabs will be stored at the top if I clicked the arrow. Depends on the content he is loading in the IE tabs. He'd have to be loading some incredibly intense sites. The ones I opened up were quite heavy on pictures and videos. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1167295-why-is-ram-usage-so-high-on-windows-8/#findComment-595842673 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammy2 Posted July 28, 2013 Author Share Posted July 28, 2013 Okay maybe it were some plug inns..I disabled most of them - leaving adblock running - have 15 tabs up and with a few having flash running in the background.. At 1.3gb for explore.. I may need to revert to IE10 but I'm on windows 8.1 so that will be hard. I think. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1167295-why-is-ram-usage-so-high-on-windows-8/#findComment-595842721 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammy2 Posted July 28, 2013 Author Share Posted July 28, 2013 I also uninstalled some of intel management softwares and asrock Xram etc and now instead of 3 and up GB at start up I'm running at 1gb.. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1167295-why-is-ram-usage-so-high-on-windows-8/#findComment-595843907 Share on other sites More sharing options...
notchinese Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 Windows 8 uses quite a bit less than Windows 7. That is probably a memory leak in the IE11 beta. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1167295-why-is-ram-usage-so-high-on-windows-8/#findComment-595843933 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neowinuser1991 Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 I'm guessing memory leak due to it being a non-final version of IE11. I'd step back down to IE10 and inform Microsoft. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1167295-why-is-ram-usage-so-high-on-windows-8/#findComment-595844061 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooky560 Veteran Posted July 29, 2013 Veteran Share Posted July 29, 2013 Ram usage seems fairly normal to me.. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1167295-why-is-ram-usage-so-high-on-windows-8/#findComment-595844465 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Studio384 Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 You can also check the tab "Start-up" in Task Manager and disable everything that isn't needed. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1167295-why-is-ram-usage-so-high-on-windows-8/#findComment-595844483 Share on other sites More sharing options...
articuno1au Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 Windows 8 uses quite a bit less than Windows 7. That is probably a memory leak in the IE11 beta. I'd say people suggesting it's a memory leak don't understand fully what a memory leak is. In this case it sounds like one of your plugins was being pants, might still be something mucking with it or that hasn't extracted cleanly. Totally remove the plugins you disabled, I'm willing to bet that it will return to normal levels if/when you do. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1167295-why-is-ram-usage-so-high-on-windows-8/#findComment-595844503 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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