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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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I just had my system peg out at 100% as well. Surface Book 3. Killed it with the task manager but never heard of this happening. I wasn't even using the search function, and the only things running were chrome, discord, slack, and One Note. Running Windows 10.
In case this helps with the investigation, I have:
The following hardware:
I had the same thing happen, tried to open a webpage today and it said there was not enough space after I opened task manager it showed feeds was using almost 29GB of RAM! Someone has a memory leak somewhere
Same issue here. Glad I stumbled over this.
Noticed my machine is slow when it shouldn't be (not running anything resource intensive)
I immediately shut down all my open applications and it still felt slow.
Upon checking the active processes and their resource usage I saw this "feeds" thing eating up 100% of my cpu, ram and even my 3080! That gpu never goes over 20%
I obviously forced it shut in a heartbeat so I do not have a screenshot.
Yesterday it was perfectly normal.
My machine was completely off up until 30 minutes of writing this post.
Turned it on and resource usage was through the roof - didn't take long to realize something was wrong.
Almost blew up my CPU - you can't treat an old lady like that and expect her not to die of a heart attack :(
Can anyone explain to me it's purpose?
Is it what it sounds like? Some app pulling in news feeds so they can pop up out of the taskbar ui?
If that's the case, how can I permanently delete any and all files related to it?
ps. whoever pitched this idea and whoever bought into it -- just.... I have very few words for you.
Not much would get me to switch off of MS products since they're essential for work.
But this idea right here, this might be the reason I switch my personal machine to Linux.
/******************************************************************/
--GPU = Nvidia 3080
Device name DESKTOP-ON97OCE
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8400 CPU @ 2.80GHz 2.80 GHz
Installed RAM 16.0 GB
Device ID 3416E703-F716-4F82-85F9-EED5048DDEC9
Product ID 00326-10861-36997-AA264
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Pen and touch No pen or touch input is available for this display
Edition Windows 10 Home
Version 21H1
Installed on 9/13/2020
OS build 19043.1526
Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.4170.0
Same thing has been happening to me intermittently, Using up about 13gb out of my 16gb. I don't even know or care what feeds does, I wish there was a way to disable it completely.