In the last couple of days I've been getting Microsoft Windows warnings telling me "Your computer is low on memory - to restore enough memory for programmes to work correctly, save your files then close or restart all open programmes"
Normally I've been able to have Windows Live Mail & Open Office (plus other stuff!) open while surfing the web in Firefox, with no problems at all but now it seems to send this message when I've only got 1 tab on FF open and WLM. More often than not FF crashes just after this message if I close the message.
I haven't installed anything new. Does anyone skilled in the art of understanding the ways of the computer have any ideas what's going on, or what I may have done to cause this?
Thanks in anticipation,
Jan
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I assume you mean 73% of cpu, which is not normal. 244MB for memory sounds ok with 4 tabs. I am Win7 here so maybe the Task Manager is slightly different.La Chouette wrote:Thanks Kevin.
I've only got FF with 4 tabs open and according to Task Manager 73% of memory is being used with FF using244MB, followed by Dropbox at 66MB, then a few things between 20 & 30MB and loads of stuff at less than 10MB.
Hope this means more to you than me
Jan
I would wait until you see the message and then look.
If you have 73% cpu with Firefox, then there's a problem. You can select the Firefox process and end if but if it's always FF where the problem lies then it could be a plugin problem.
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