It’s never enough with RAM hogs like Chrome. 32GB minimum.
64k should be enough for anyone.
most of my physical machines have 32-64gb, but I need much of that ram for virtual machines running on them.
16 is probably good enough for most people, 32 if you are heavy Gameboy or girl.
My wife’s PC has that much memory.
The box still crawls some days.
Having multiple edge, chrome, and Firefox browsers open with all the tabs so tiny I can’t read them. I show the task manager and can never get through.
I close stuff down when not in use. Auto save for applications.
The machine I’m on now has a problem with closed IE / Edge and Chrome (browser) windows leaving behind software still running, at least in the sense of appearing in Task Manager’s “Processes” list as using up RAM. THAT (plus a few other processes and Windows itself) used up all my virtual memory last night, resulting in a Chrome window failing to refresh itself, as some are won’t to do (refresh themselves). In this machine, RAM = 10 GB, the page file = 22 GB.
I closed several Chrome windows and through Task Manager (only way to be sure they’re really totally “gone”) all the IE / Edge windows I had open, leaving several Chrome windows on which I’m researching some stuff open: No problems since. But, it’s a pain to keep having to go into Task Manager to be sure processes are ended, and TM doesn’t indicate WHICH Chrome window is which, SFAIK.
I believe that without this memory leak(?) problem 10-12 GB of RAM would be fine for me. For my wife, who often has 15-20 browser windows open at a time (per the Taskbar), and some word processing windows, that may result in her page file being used a lot...
However, here’s a question: If I am using an audio recorder like Wavosaur (think: “like Audacity, but simpler”), the recorded audio goes into RAM memory, I believe, until the recording is concluded and saved to a drive?
I’ll probably bump my heavy use machines up to 16 GB — RAM prices have been falling...
Or are you using another Chrome-based browser (e.g., Brave or Comodo Dragon)?