Morning. For a little while now my small form factor i3 3220 Windows 7 pc seems to run very slow with lots of hard drive activity. No idea where to start on this one. Here's a shot of the performance monitor Would I be right in thinking from the above, that the 4gb of ram is just not enough? Thanks.
Probably. You could manually set page files or better yet have a bigger one on a different disk and see if that helps. Also disk usage will tell you what is using it wont it?
I think it's a problem with FireFox. The 4gb of ram was completely spent, god knows on what, I'm only running a browser. I have Chrome installed also, so I'm using that now and the computer is working fine.
Not seeing it here on Linux, but then again this system has 16GB so it'd be less noticeable. I know in 67 (currently beta) it gained the ability to selectively unload older tabs when memory gets low, which could help matters.
Not that I know of. I think Firefox is generally relatively lean on memory use these days. I wonder whether it was an up to date, clean version of Firefox? Some addons can/could cause issues.
It was still having episodes of slow running, so I put another 8gb in and now have 12gb and at times the resource manager can show that over 7gb of physical memory is in use, but now it's running effortlessly with no issues.
