what is runtime broker, and why does it use so much memory?

Anonymous
2012-10-28T14:43:19+00:00

in task manager there is process called Runtime Broker. and it uses over 600 MB of my ram. putting my average usage at 60% on my 4 gig laptop. not noticed any performance issues yet. just a lot memory being used. makes me think of windows vista almost bc it had same issue in past. it would use all system resources.

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-10-30T18:57:32+00:00

    I am using Norton 360 and I have the same issue, continuous incremental memory leak, and I am running the legit bought version of Win 8 Pro not the RTM version. I find closing RuntimeBroker.ex restores the memory back to normal. on my system about 2Gig used, but the process restarts itself and before long I'm back to less than 1 Gig free memory on an 8 Gig machine. This is something MS need to fix asap.

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-10-30T18:24:55+00:00

    Yup the fault could well be in any application or windows itself. 

    It is my first time here as well. :P I doubt developers would take the time to view whats going on in communities as most of the problems people discuss here are usually solved through the community itself. However, I think these threads are checked once in a while by some 'specialist'.

    By the way it seems your antivirus is not the cause of your problem, right? :D

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-10-30T16:37:43+00:00

    Unless we are all running the same application, the fault could lie with the Windows Runtime and the way that it releases resources / frees memory....or it could be one of the WinRT apps that comes with Windows 8 (or it could be something completely different!), either way I think that it's down to Microsoft to investigate the problem.

    I haven't posted in here before - do MS developers ever answer our cries for help or do they leave us to moan to each other about our problems and just hope that we go away? :)

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-10-30T14:04:24+00:00

    Well, I think it is actually up to the developer of the (faulty) application, to fix it.  And in order to fix such a problem I guess the whole software is to be reviewed (ie thousands of lines of codes are to be revised), and that is quite a task.

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  5. Anonymous
    2012-10-30T03:56:21+00:00

    well hopefully Microsoft releases an update to fix the memory leak. shouldn't be to hard right?

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