My Windows 11 laptop with 32 GB RAM only allows for about 10-12gb user addressable before starting to crash. I do keep a lot of Chrome tabs open so that can easily get to 6-8gb, plus IntelliJ can use another 4-5. Add on VScode, sometimes Firefox or Opera, an email client, some other utilities (or god forbid try opening WSL), and I'm constantly getting crashes. And as I stated, only about 12gb of applications on a 32gb machine. It makes no sense.

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kalleboo 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What kind of crashes? Could you have bad RAM and the crashes start once the bad chip get put into use?

	▲	andy800 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I would show you task manager showing 100% of user addressable space being used. It seems to reserve at least half of its memory for Windows itself or background processes. What kind of crashes? Applications just shutting down without warning, or Chrome slowing down and struggling to display anything, or itself closing. If there is a setting I could change, I've likely tried it, but I'm open to suggestions.

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picofarad 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You need to run memtest.