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Old December 8th 17, 02:55 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Char Jackson
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Default Slowing computer.

On Thu, 07 Dec 2017 19:07:48 -0500, Paul wrote:

Peter Jason wrote:
I have many HDDs connected to my computer and it runs 24/7.

My unit has an SSD system disk and 12GB RAM.

Will adding more RAM speed things up, or is some limit reached with
extra RAM?


How have you determined the machine is slowing up ?

At the 12GB level, you're pretty well past the point
where more is going to help. You would have some idea
if you had actual "resource hog" software running, which
actually makes use of that RAM. You could probably get
Firefox to eat it all, but it would take a substantial
number of open tabs. Some joker in a thread I was reading,
claims to have been able to open 4000 tabs on Firefox, but
I think he was pulling our leg.


I think he was pulling your leg, as well. I currently have about 270
tabs open, and without closing any, I wanted to open a saved session
that would have put me at around 415 tabs. Firefox crashed in seconds.
Restarting it a few times resulted in a quick crash each time. So I
doubt the claim of 4000 tabs.

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