Feeds / Search application using all of the ram

Anonymous
2022-02-17T10:44:32+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2022-02-20T09:24:37+00:00

    Thanks.

    Anyone affected WITHOUT Nvidia graphics here? Not blaming Nvidia (I have Nvidia too and do not expereience this issue), just looking for anything in common.

    MP

    Yes, older laptop with Intel HD Graphics. News and Interest feed starts to leak memory on Hover Over or click and never fully loads. This problem started with Search app randomly crashing, then developing into full memory leak and unintended system shutdown over the past week or so. Have to manually End Task and suspend News and Interests on the Task Bar to prevent recurrence. Not ideal, as I use this feature frequently.

    Device name DESKTOP-xxxxxx
    Installed RAM 8.00 GB
    System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
    Pen and touch No pen or touch input is available for this display
    System Manufacturer Acer
    System Model Aspire E5-532
    Processor Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU N3150 @ 1.60GHz, 1601 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
    BIOS Version/Date Insyde Corp. V1.23, 30/09/2016

    dition Windows 10 Pro
    Version 21H2
    Installed on ‎10/‎06/‎2020
    OS build 19044.1503
    Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.4170.0

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-02-20T08:46:01+00:00

    This same thing happened to me this afternoon. I was running Rainbow 6 and then it suddenly crashed. I then opened chrome and it crashed before opening. I looked at task manager and saw that Feeds was taking up 14 gigs of my 16 gb of memory. I ended the task and it solved the problem.

    PC Specs:

    CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 3800X

    Ram - G.Skill 16gb

    Windows 10 Pro 64bit

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  3. Miroslav Pragl 78,606 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2022-02-20T07:43:35+00:00

    Most likely because you have dynamic virtual memory (AKA swap / paging file). So after memory leak uses all physical memory, virtual memory starts being used.

    MP

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-02-20T06:05:12+00:00

    No seriously.

    Feeds was using 100% of my CPU and my Hard drive space. Feeds way using 100GB of free space on my SSD and totally laging even my mouse clicks and keyboard use in MS office while traying to work.

    Why of Why is Feeds using over 100 GB of my hard drive? It locked up my hard drive.

    ****?

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-02-20T04:52:26+00:00

    Just happened to me. I was playing Genshin Impact with Discord, Chrome, and Spotify running in the background and noticed loading times were a lot longer than usual followed with some choppy framerates. Opened up task manager to see that Feeds was using 11GB.

    I ended the task and disabled the News and Interest. So far it seems okay

    Updated to Windows 10 21H2 (KB5010342) 8 days ago

    AMD Ryzen 5 3500X

    RX 570 4GB

    16GB DDR4 2666mHz (2x8GB)

    Somebody mentioned another cumulative update (KB5010415), but so far it hasn't been showing up in my Updates tab.

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