Having too little memory makes software crash, so I need to set up memory carefully.
Having too little memory makes software crash, so I need to set up memory carefully.
I have a Lenovo IdeaPad 3 laptop with Type 82RQ and model number 17ABA7. My programs often crash or stop working, sometimes showing error messages. This seems to be because my computer doesn't have enough RAM. The system also tells me this message more often when certain programs try to start. Sometimes the screen goes black or the laptop stops responding for a few seconds until it comes back online. Other times, the programs look strange, like big areas with nothing on them instead of full screens. One or more drivers disappear suddenly from my list of installed software. I currently have 16/14GB of RAM. Before this problem, I used an Acer Aspire E 15 model that had 8 GB of RAM and it worked fine even though there was less memory then. Can Windows 11 be set up to manage the RAM better so such crashes don't happen? Or can I fix something else like that instead? When I open Task Manager, my RAM usage is almost always shown at around 70% or 90%. Even if I add up all the programs listed there, they only use about 5 GB of total memory. Error messages keep showing up when about 90% of my available RAM is used. Why doesn't Windows automatically manage how much RAM it uses so that this kind of low usage never happens?
A 12 GB page file is a little too much. Does the amount of memory used drop when you restart? It could be that one of your drivers has a problem and keeps asking for more memory instead of letting go once it's done. Windows can't give up all its memory, so if a driver is acting wrong, this happens. Normally, Windows tries to find out if programs are using too much memory, but it isn't perfect. Have you run an auto update? https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/produ.../downloads
Yes, it starts with fewer used memory spots and adds bits as usage grows higher up. How do I find the right driver? Thanks for sharing that link. Yes, I did check the included or supplied or original installation on my Lenovo computer. It looked like everything was set right then. Now I have a totally fresh Windows 11 installed and put every driver manually from that Lenovo website.
so this is a clean install. And it still happens figuring out which driver is the cause can take work You probably need to run poolmon, it shows what is using memory on the system video shows how to run it, the top line of description has command you use to identify the tag, I can't copy it here as forums will play with its formating you need to download the windows Driver toolkit - link - as it includes poolmon (just click go to site) You want to find the tag that is using the biggest difference between Allocs & Frees as these are the processes keeping memory and not giving it back. Leaks are caused by software requesting memory and not giving it back when its finished. Many of the processes are actually parts of windows as you can see the processes that manage memory here, so some will always have a lot. This is normal. You want to look at non Microsoft tags this is a list of the most common tags - https://github.com/zodiacon/PoolMonXv2/b...ooltag.txt I would run program just after boot, to get a baseline for usage and something to compare to when memory usage is massive screenshots can help. uploading to an image sharing website and show links here for any you want help with.
Yes, that's correct. Sorry, is this the right link? After clicking it here is what shows up: Looks like a Microsoft program. OK. If on a system things run okay but programs stay open, and I don't close them or if I try to start more while not enough RAM is left, Windows will handle it so those programs won't crash. It might use the page.sys file instead of the actual memory (RAM). So in other words, maybe the problem comes from me opening too many programs or tabs in Firefox that need a lot of RAM? I used to run the same stuff on my Acer Aspire E 15 before and on computers like that, but I never had this kind of issue. Could there be something about the Lenovo IdeaPad 3 17ABA7? The BIOS and UEFI are also updated now. OK, super, thank you very much!