Computer freezing when closing Chrome tabs after memory update

[jdeg]

I'm having a very strange problem that is driving me crazy. I recently upgraded my memory to 16gb of corsair vengeance DDR3. I have an ASUS P6T Deluxe running a intel core i7.

So, when I have a lot of Chrome tabs open (50+) and am using a lot of memory (Now I know it's silly to have this many tabs open, but it's just how I work). Closing older tabs freezes the computer for a couple minutes. The hard drive seems to go nuts. Forget about closing a whole bank of tabs. I have to restart the computer. It seems that once I start using more than 9gb of ram or so, this happens.

I've tried turning down the clock speed of the ram and getting completely new ram. Neither worked.

I'm thinking the P6T doesn't handle using this much ram very well. I never had this problem when I only had 6gb of ram. Any ideas?

 

[glenn_n]

Seems to be fixed by Dell system update!
About 7 days ago I did a Dell update on the one (laptop) computer that was having this Chrome problem. The update included a number of driver updates, but I don't think video driver was among them (BTW, the Latitude laptops have both shared mem Intel 3000 or 4000 and nVidia with dedicated RAM). I have left the laptop on all this time with Chrome loaded up with twice my usual number of tabs (20 vs. 10). I have not observed any hesitancy when closing tabs (although mostly I left them open). Just now I closed the entire browser - it closed very quickly and I had task man open and the Chrome processes disappeared very fast.

Sure, I should have waited two weeks, not just one, but it really does seem to be fixed now! I'm not saying that other speculation is wrong, I'll bet everyone is going to have there own solutions (if they have any solution at all).

 

[sneader]

My problem seems to be solved as well. I do not have a Dell, so Dell updates didn't work for me. The only change that I can think of that may have helped was removing one application from being backed up by CrashPlan, that had data in the AppData directory. Other than that, maybe a Windows update of some sort fixed it. Or maybe it will come back later. But right now, the Chrome window / tab closing problem is GONE. Tabs close without any sort of hesitation or hang (finally!!)

 

[nmaps]

The only change that I can think of that may have helped was removing one application from being backed up by CrashPlan, that had data in the AppData directory.

...and what was the application that you removed from CrashPlan backups?

 

[sneader]

In CrashPlan, I had it backing up my FileZilla (FTP program) profiles. FileZilla stores those in C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\FileZilla\. That was the only thing I was backing up in AppData, and I removed it. I might add it back and reboot and see if anything changes.

 

[supercell29]

Chrome Version (Version 27.0.1453.116 m):
Operating System (Windows 7 64bit):
Extensions (Ad Block [latest ver]):

Did this:
Cleared up for me after altering the chrome://flags/ -> "GPU compositing on all pages" to "disabled". Worked for a while... it later came back.

Tried that:
Followed the CrashPlan 3.5.3 -> AppData thingy .. unchecked it. It went away for days and days... and now it's back (actually had to cold boot my bad ass).

What a pain in the ass!! Happy we're all trying to get it right, but REALLY? Should it be so crazy in this day and age? Windows 95: Yeah, I could see this crap happening. Windows 7? Common! :~)

Just bitching... we'll figure it out :~)

 

[JoshSamBob]

I hate to post this as an "answer," but I have the same problem with an HP (no "Dell update" for me!), and can't for the life of me find a way to follow this thread without posting. If I missed that, please help - and more importantly, if you can help solve this issue, please do!

 

[glenn_n]

Sadly I spoke too soon. Although I waited 7 days before happily declaring my problem fixed, when I returned to work on Monday, it was not so. And I see a new problem behavior: occasionally when I type a new URL for an existing tab, it hangs my entire system for 60 to 120 seconds. After seeing this a few times I opened taskman and saw that a few chrome processes were using more than 250MB each - I've never seen numbers that high before.

 

[matmat07]

I'm not sure if the issue I have is the same, but here's what seems different from you:

First i don't have crashplan (what does this seems so popular and i've only just heard of it for the first time here?)

Also, my mouse can still move after chrome freeze until I click on a tab, music kept playing (but only until the end of the current song, it did not play another).

I think you are sayong that you have a total freeze, when mine seems to be more gradual.

 

[gzz]

My laptop is a 2017 Dell XPS 13 9360 with 16GB memory, i7-8550U(intel uhd graphics 620), and a TOSHIBA 512GB NVMe SSD.
I use chrome and firefox quantum, both of which have the same issue. Even the Adobe Acrobat Reader DC seems to have the same closing-freezing issue when lots of pdf files are opened for a long time.
And this is seemingly related to the slow-down of my computer when not using the external AC adapter after kept powered-on for ~5 days.
There's a slight difference between your symptom and mine. Closing any single tab doesn't provide a freeze. The freeze appears the exact time when all tab and window opened by chrome is closed. The whole windows freezes with mouse pointer not responding and a frame of the window-closing animation remains on the screen. After ~30s everything returns to normal(maybe).
I don't use CrashPlan as it's not famous in China.
Some posts on the Internet suggests it's related to Max Cached Icons, but their solution doesn't work for me.
And some voice said the Superfetch service but disabling it didn't lead to a remission for me.