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I am having an issue that my programs crash often with out-of-memory errors.

My memory spec: 32GB total RAM 64GB starting page file 128GB max page file

With these huge values, I still get out of memory errors and my programs are often crashing while running just a few tabs in Chrome for example. Could this be related to somehow messing up while installing GRUB and/or general dual boot usage or some Windows corruption? My Linux runs just fine.

task manager view

UPDATE:

After while running idle my virtual memory usage actually spikes to more than 50 GB.

after running query suggested here: https://superuser.com/a/1373217/882391

Get-Process | Sort PagedMemorySize-Desc | Select Name, PagedMemorySize, VirtualMemorySize -First 10

Output is all instances of svchost suggesting issue is indeed with the operating system or some kind of virus. Will keep this updated.

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  • “Could this be related to somehow messing up while installing GRUB and/or general dual boot usage or some Windows corruption?” - No; What error message are you getting exactly? – Ramhound Oct 02 '21 at 20:44
  • It sounds more like a bad memory stick, or maybe even windows swapping to a disk that has bad sectors. – LPChip Oct 02 '21 at 20:48

  • What error message are you getting exactly? ;

    General Out of memory errors, either Windows stating it directly by popup error or apps crashing or for example chrome killing a tab stating there is not enough memory

     – PapeK24 Oct 02 '21 at 21:09

  • It sounds more like a bad memory stick, or maybe even windows swapping to a disk that has bad sectors.;

    How would I test for that? Why it does not happen on Linux?

     – PapeK24 Oct 02 '21 at 21:10
  • Are the programs getting out of memory errors 32-bit? What programs are giving errors? – Mokubai Oct 02 '21 at 21:25
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    If possible, please provide a screenshot of an actual error message you see. When you get the error, try to create a new screenshot of Task Manager. – Daniel B Oct 02 '21 at 21:29
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    Does this answer your question? Windows says RAM ran out while there is still 4 GB of physical memory available – End Anti-Semitic Hate Oct 02 '21 at 21:30
  • see also: https://superuser.com/questions/1170481/out-of-memory-when-plenty-available – End Anti-Semitic Hate Oct 02 '21 at 21:30
  • see also: https://superuser.com/questions/943175/windows-says-ram-ran-out-while-there-is-still-4-gb-of-physical-memory-available – End Anti-Semitic Hate Oct 02 '21 at 21:31
  • and finally: https://superuser.com/questions/1024966/getting-out-of-memory-errors-when-around-65-used-in-windows-10 – End Anti-Semitic Hate Oct 02 '21 at 21:31
  • @RockPaperLz-MaskitorCasket it is actually the same error from https://superuser.com/questions/1170481/out-of-memory-when-plenty-available (just in English, not Chinese ) but I have 128GB of virtual memory, most of it free. No idea how I would exceed that. An no, all programs are 64-bit – PapeK24 Oct 02 '21 at 21:35
  • @PapeK24 Yes, and I find the single answer to that question to not be too satisfying... although I'm glad that individual got things working better. – End Anti-Semitic Hate Oct 02 '21 at 21:37
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    BTW, MemInfo (https://www.carthagosoft.net/MemInfo.php) can sometimes help a bit when trying to diagnose issues like this. It's fairly simple, but when I used it in the past, I found it to be accurate. It includes a function to help defragment/release unused memory blocks as well. – End Anti-Semitic Hate Oct 02 '21 at 21:40
  • Nice, that seems like a nice simple tool. I'll run it and try to pinpoint when the issues happen. Also, ran a virus and malware scan. Did not use windows for a while and forgot these things exist :D . Will keep you guys updated. Thanks for the help. – PapeK24 Oct 02 '21 at 21:55
  • you prolly also want to do a few scans with the windows memory diagnostic tools, and perhaps memtestx86. windows does have per-processes limits on memory allocation but that would be unlikely to come up except with the occasional large application being heavily used. – Frank Thomas Oct 02 '21 at 22:30
  • See (by searching is settings) View Reliability History or Problem Reports. Both will show you the same error report. Copy it in full. EG a program can only go down so many levels such as when search a folder tree. How many is random (but large). If you hit it, depending on programming language, you will get Out of memory, Out of stack space, or Could not allocate .... – user1292580 Oct 03 '21 at 01:13
  • Memory means one of three things. Physical memory, virtual memory, and memory address space. Memory address space is how a program sees memory. It sees a (for 32 bit) a 4 GB contiguous address space - 0 to 4 GB. At any particular address there may be physical memory, hard disk memory (or both), or no memory. If you try to use that address windows will map a physical page of memory to it. – user1292580 Oct 03 '21 at 01:24
  • In your screenshot. Only the bar graph talks about memory from a memory management perspective (hover over the 4 different segments of the bar graph). The other figures are calculated above and below the bar graph to try to give context to what is happening. – user1292580 Oct 03 '21 at 08:02

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