Subj : Re: Supermium
To   : All
From : August Abolins
Date : Thu Sep 18 2025 18:49:00

Hello Ky.Moffet!

** On Sunday 14.09.25 - 11:04, Ky.Moffet wrote to me:

>> It has silently closed here (XP) several times.  But, before
>> that happens, my system (MemInfo 3.43) reports "Low memory".

[...]

> But on 32bit XP, even with the default max supported 4GB of
> system RAM, you really only have 3GB to work with (one GB is
> not really available), and for any modern browser, that's
> nowhere near enough.

Yes..  I am well aware for the inaccessible 1GB over 3GB.  :(


>> One of the latest crashes/closures did something to prevent
>> me from putting my XP to Sleep.  Had to do a hard shutdown
>> [hold power button until powers off] :(

> Open up Task Manager, sort by name, close anything named chrome.exe

I just had another episode where I got "Low memory" and I was  
unable suspend the laptop.  There were actually several  
chrome.exe in the process list.  I killed one of them, and  
suddenly suspend worked.   THX!


> The last one or two will refuse to close, but once everything
> else has been forcibly closed, after a few minutes the rest
> will close on their own, or will finally let you close them.
> (This happens with all browsers, now and then, I'm not sure
> why. SeaMonkey does it too and they're no relation at all.)

There were a total of 3 chrome.exe instances originally.  After  
killing one of them, and comingback out of suspend, there was  
only one chrome.exe in the list.


> Also, in settings under "System: make sure "Continue running
> background apps when Supermium is closed" is disabled.

Ah..  I didn't get a chance to remember that one.  DONE!


> At a very wild guess, disabling "hardware acceleration" might
> help --Chrome might have hold of the graphics driver that way
> and can't turn loose.

Now DONE!

Thanks, again!
-- 
  ../|ug

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