Windows 10 forcing me to close programs due to pretty extreme SWAP usage.

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Cole Morgan

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Recently windows has been prompting me to close programs in order to prevent information loss. Rainmeter has been showing less than 4GB of my RAM in use but around 60GB of SWAP being used. Unfortunately I cannot find what is eating up all my virtual memory or why it is even being used over the actual RAM in the first place. It gets fussy when just trying to have a single web page running. Any tips or tricks on finding the culprit or fixing the issue?

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System:
Windows 10 Pro 64 bit
MSI Z97 PC Mate
i7-4790k
32GB Corsair Vengeance RAM
2 R9 295x2 crossfire
Sandisk 120GB SSD
Seagate 2TB SSHD
EVGA 1300w PSU
 
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Flyfisherman
Hi,
You have a lot of process started, is it necessary to have all of these?
Try to unchecked those that absolutley do not need to be auto started when windows starts.
http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/windows-10-tip-control-which-apps-and-services-run-startup

If You are setting up to much of a swap file it will be somewhat used, or do You have it set to automatically?
Otherwise try to set min and max to equal size of let say 8GB (8000MB) and try how it works out.
https://www.winhelp.us/set-paging-file-to-a-fixed-size-in-windows.html
Or
http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=faq-Windows-10&faq=52


You can also checkout the Memory portion in the 'Resource Monitor' to better see what is eating memory, as I said in my...
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Hi,

Start > type Resource Monitor > open up the window so you better can see > click Memory > take a screenshot of just that > click CPU and then sort by clicking the CPU column and make sure tha the very tiny arrow point downwards - it will sort all the most demanding processes with the highest from top > Take a screen shot of that as well

Post the screen shots here.
You can use the inbuilt Snipping tool in Windows: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/snipping-tool-capture-screenshots-windows-8-tips

Best Regards from Sweden
 
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Windows 10 Pro x64 v1511
Firefox v46.0

and I'd rather not disable it outright.
 
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Cole Morgan

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These screenshots are after having received the warning. Usage was around three hours, one on youtube and two on the netflix windows app.

http://imgur.com/a/1ToYG
 
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Hi,
You have a lot of process started, is it necessary to have all of these?
Try to unchecked those that absolutley do not need to be auto started when windows starts.
http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/windows-10-tip-control-which-apps-and-services-run-startup

If You are setting up to much of a swap file it will be somewhat used, or do You have it set to automatically?
Otherwise try to set min and max to equal size of let say 8GB (8000MB) and try how it works out.
https://www.winhelp.us/set-paging-file-to-a-fixed-size-in-windows.html
Or
http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=faq-Windows-10&faq=52


You can also checkout the Memory portion in the 'Resource Monitor' to better see what is eating memory, as I said in my previous post.
It could be something called a 'memory leakage' from one of Your programs that perhaps is poorly written or req. an update.
Best regards from Sweden
 
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