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Constant lag spikes when I do anything now
For seemingly months now my computer has been experiencing these random lags with the mouse cursor when I move it. I'll be browsing the net move my cursor to the end of the page and the entire computer will freeze up for maybe 2 seconds before it resumes again. Lately it has been doing it more and too often.
Is this a processor/memory issue? I run a mediocre i5 430 m 4 GB RAM but i don't have tons of programs running. Google Chrome seems to eat a MASSIVE amount of memory, when I add up all those processes for it it comes out to over 500k. That's with only like 3 tabs running and a few extensions (which don't even take up a lot of memory based on Google Chrome's task manager). Oh woops look at that it just froze again as I was typing this. Hah.
Overall memory usage obviously varies but right now i'm operating at 65% which is kind of a lot since I have a few programs running but regardless this problem occurs even at 52%. How can I go about diagnosing the problem?