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My hp laptop having core i3 plus 4GB of RAM hangs on running one chrome browser with some tabs plus visual studio 2015. I just upgrade my laptop from 4GB of RAM to 4+8 GB of RAM. Now I want to measure/judge how much difference in processing speed and how many heavy applications I can run in parallel. Can anyone please tell me a way to measure how much efficiency I have gotten in terms of speed and capacity of parallel processing? Is there tool for laptop hang testing?
CoderMan
Posted 2016-08-26T14:23:21.747
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Your processing speed won't increase, since your CPU, is exactly the same. – Ramhound – 2016-08-26T14:29:00.873
Question edited. My basic problem is laptop hangs on running chrome and visual studio for some time. Is there tool for laptop hang testing? – CoderMan – 2016-08-26T14:44:53.433
If you still have that problem, even with 12 GB of system memory, those processes were not hanging because of your memory usage. – Ramhound – 2016-08-26T14:47:08.720
they could be hanging because of a memory misconfiguration (SPD) in the BIOS. If the two sets of memory report different capabilities, the BIOS must choose something, occasionally, it chooses wrong. Often this will work in general, but certain processes will show side effects. – Yorik – 2016-08-26T15:02:07.937
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– DavidPostill – 2016-08-26T15:06:40.7871I think you just have a weak CPU. You shouldn't hang from running 1 Chrome browser. If your computer is already hanging from that, adding more RAM isn't going to do you any good. If anything, you'll just cause more hanging by having more applications open and trying to do more multitasking. ** Is there tool for laptop hang testing?** Before you start diving deep, be sure to check the shallow waters. Open up task manager, and watch your CPU usage when doing things. If it's at 100%, see what process is utilizing it most. – DrZoo – 2016-08-26T15:19:28.717
1Verify the system is running a 64-bit operating system. It won't help with the performance with Visual Studio but will help with performance and security with Chrome. Visual Studio is a 32-bit application. Of course if the real problem is your CPU, switchting to a 64-bit OS, won't solve your problem. – Ramhound – 2016-08-26T15:32:04.060
@DrZoo: CPU usage is around 7%. Memory gets up to 74% with 10-15 tabs in Chrome browser and MS visual studio 2015 after running these processes for one-two hour. – CoderMan – 2016-08-26T18:17:23.563
@Ramhound: My system has Windows 7 x64. Hanging problem occurs after running chrome and visual studio for one-two hours. – CoderMan – 2016-08-26T18:19:12.360
If you still have these problems with 12 GB of memory have a memory leak – Ramhound – 2016-08-26T18:35:14.907
Run a memory test to make sure you have no hardware issues. From there, it could be software/file corruption or just low performing CPU. – Ian M – 2016-08-26T22:34:44.707