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High memory usage - Run, PowerAccent, ColorPickerUI
Microsoft PowerToys version
0.81.1
Installation method
Microsoft Store
Running as admin
Yes
Area(s) with issue?
General
Steps to reproduce
Memory leak PowerToys. Software is running in background and opens on startup. Not had these issues before. Restarted Powertoys and computer but same issue everytime.
✔️ Expected Behavior
Relatively low memory usage from PowerToys - colleague has less 100Mb usage for PowerToys run
❌ Actual Behavior
Memory usage for PowerToys Run, PowerAccent, ColorPickerUI in way to high for each - almost a GB. Please can this be investigated
Other Software
N/A
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I am also facing same issues. Observed today only. PFBS. Kindly get such critical issues fixed at high priority.
Noticed this today with Run and Color Picker. When I was in the settings I noticed Quick Accent wasn't enabled (which I use) and I observed the same issue (I assume this isn't intentional by the way but maybe this is just how much memory these things use nowadays).
Let me know if I can provide any other information (config, memory dump, whatever).
PowerToysReport_2024-10-27-11-57-06.zip
EDIT: the RAM usage seems to go down by almost half if I disconnect my second monitor and am only using the laptop screen itself.
Same issue, even after I did a fresh install with v0.87.1. FUnnily enough, it is (more or less) only these Extensions. Other extensions, such as Awake/Advanced Paste/Peek/Find my mouse do not use so much RAM.
Same for me.
300 MB of RAM on system startup, before I initiated the Color Picker:
Same. When I open the Run bar and type, the results may freeze and then it runs up memory. Ran up my page file until I had no disk space left. Now it's happening almost every other time I try to use it
I am getting huge memory usage when using powertoys.run (It won't even open anymore).
PowerToys v0.88.0
New Command Palette eats 300-450MB easily. That's why I'm using just a couple of PowerToys with minimal memory footprint. It seems modern coding uses a "free memory = wasted memory" mantra 😀
New Command Palette eats 300-450MB easily. That's why I'm using just a couple of PowerToys with minimal memory footprint. It seems modern coding uses a "free memory = wasted memory" mantra 😀
curiously I found that this case is not appear in my win10 PC but in my win11 laptop
+1 Micosoft.CmdPal.UI.exe consumes 725MB of memory upon booting up my Win11 Pro system.
+1, these are crazy amounts of RAM to be using for these tools, even if they were on screen, let alone hidden in the background.
