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I noticed that the PC started running slow today and opened task manager to see that System, Feeds (Search application) is using CPU and Disk quite heavily and as much ram that it can to pin it to 100%.
Is anyone else experiencing this behavior?
Update: Windows crashed and i restarted, same application started to ramp up again so i ended it.
Looking into events now.
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Hi, I've just had this issue this morning and I also disabled 'News and interests' feed from taskbar, hopefully doesn't happen again.
PC Specs:
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8400 CPU @ 2.80GHz 2.81 GHz
Installed RAM 16.0 GB
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Edition Windows 10 Home
Version 21H1
Installed on 03/08/2020
OS build 19043.1586
Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.4170.0
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
Same issue here 30GB of my 32GB used up by feeds.
Turned off news and interests in the task bar and end tasked feeds which is working for now, but this should not be happening in the first place.
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz 3.70 GHz
Installed RAM 32.0 GB
Nvidia GTX 1080Ti
Edition Windows 10 Pro
Version 21H2
Installed on 23/07/2020
OS build 19044.1586
Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.4170.0
Windows is installed on a Corsair Force MP510 NVMe M.2 SSD 1.9TB with 300GB free space
Also just occurred today March 31st 2022.
I had a crash, restored my Brave browser, was checking on some documents. Then I opened Chrome with one tab and it was immediately crashing Chrome every few seconds. Then went back to Brave and it was chugging too. Opened task manager and it didn't have enough memory to show everything, so I quite Brave and Chrome, reopened task manager and 98% of my 32 gigs of ram was in use. Searched for the culprit and it was Feeds/ Search Application. Immediately assumed it was a virus or crypto mining malware and killed it.
Turns out it's some feature of Microsoft's operating system I can't turn off. That's a bummer because any program that does that gets uninstalled immediately... -_-
Windows 10 Pro
10.0.19044 Build 19044
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core, 3.8Ghz
RTX 3080ti
32 GB Ram
Likewise, just happened for the first time ever. I was playing a 1080p youtube video, had Steam running and the momment i opened two Word files together my memory usage jumped to 99%, even to the point og using the main SSD drive space as virtual memory. Only a restart fixed the problem. Also i noticed that the process which caused this was named "Fuentes"; because my Windows is in Spanish, I checked that indeed the process is "SearchApp.exe", the one that caused the memory leak.
Specs:
Windows 10 Pro
Intel Core i7-7700K
32GB RAM
256GB SSD System
2TB HDD + 2TB HDD + 1TB SSD
Nvidia GTX 1080 (DCH 511.79 drivers installed)
Just happened here, while browsing YouTube in Chrome and suddenly nothing worked anymore. Went to the Task Manager to see Feeds eating 12GB of RAM for no reason and it was still rising when I killed it. I have this PC for almost 5 years now and it's the first time I've ever seen it get significantly slower.
Specs:
Windows 10 Pro
Intel Core i7-7700
16GB RAM
128GB SSD + 1TB HD
Nvidia GTX 1070 (standard drivers installed)
