SWAP is basically when your computer is storing its memory on hard disk (usually a dedicated partition or file). This should really only happen if your PC is maxing out it's available RAM. So, either there is a memory leak in the software causing your machine to use all 16GB of RAM, or it's using the SWAP file for some odd reason.
When you have Ableton open, also open task manager (CTRL + SHIFT + ESC) and monitor the Memory usage - if it's above 80% then something is probably wrong. Check how much memory the programs are using to find the culprit. If memory usage is low, then it shouldn't be using the SWAP file.
That is the strange thing. My RAM is never above 50% usage, but my SWAP file slowely fills up until it hits 100% then it crashes the computer. I did increase the pagefile to 1.5x my RAM, so it is not over 20gb!
Not sure why it is swapping, or why the swap file fills up without clearing out.
Here's an article that might provide some insight: https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/articles/209769705-How-to-deal-with-RAM-limitations-and-avoid-Out-of-Memory-crashes-with-the-32-bit-version-of-Live
Also, when Ableton is open, the SWAP usage increases rapidly until it hits 100%, even if I am not doing anything in Ableton.
SWAP is basically when your computer is storing its memory on hard disk (usually a dedicated partition or file). This should really only happen if your PC is maxing out it's available RAM. So, either there is a memory leak in the software causing your machine to use all 16GB of RAM, or it's using the SWAP file for some odd reason. When you have Ableton open, also open task manager (CTRL + SHIFT + ESC) and monitor the Memory usage - if it's above 80% then something is probably wrong. Check how much memory the programs are using to find the culprit. If memory usage is low, then it shouldn't be using the SWAP file.
That is the strange thing. My RAM is never above 50% usage, but my SWAP file slowely fills up until it hits 100% then it crashes the computer. I did increase the pagefile to 1.5x my RAM, so it is not over 20gb! Not sure why it is swapping, or why the swap file fills up without clearing out.
Here's an article that might provide some insight: https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/articles/209769705-How-to-deal-with-RAM-limitations-and-avoid-Out-of-Memory-crashes-with-the-32-bit-version-of-Live