Windows 10 and Photo's

[Australian-n00b]

Hey all

 

Just found a very integrating thing within windows 10

 

Dont now if its a bug or an issue

 

I am working on some Powerpoint stuff so adding in photos but noticed my pc been Slugish

 

so opened Task Manager and saw Microsoft Photos Taking 7.3 GB of my Ram  Worse then Chrome LOL

 

Now i only had 2 photos of not that high res open and Photos was taking 7.3 GB of Ram WTF

 

Anyone seen this or know of this???

 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

23 minutes ago, Australian-n00b said:

Hey all

 

Just found a very integrating thing within windows 10

 

Dont now if its a bug or an issue

 

I am working on some Powerpoint stuff so adding in photos but noticed my pc been Slugish

 

so opened Task Manager and saw Microsoft Photos Taking 7.3 GB of my Ram  Worse then Chrome LOL

 

Now i only had 2 photos of not that high res open and Photos was taking 7.3 GB of Ram WTF

 

Anyone seen this or know of this???

 

What in the world... Expand Photos and see what's up. 

[Australian-n00b]

9 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

What in the world... Expand Photos and see what's up. 

Unable as i have closed it as it was killing my pc

 

if i can replicate i will do that

 

even just opening 2 photos now i am killing 242 MB and thats still huge  <  And in the words of Jayztwocents "Lady's"

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

8 minutes ago, Australian-n00b said:

Unable as i have closed it as it was killing my pc

 

if i can replicate i will do that

 

even just opening 2 photos now i am killing 242 MB and thats still huge  <  And in the words of Jayztwocents "Lady's"

Mhm... never noticed that. 4 Photos opened and well...

[Australian-n00b]

1 minute ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Mhm... never noticed that. 4 Photos opened and well...

Maybe something for Linus to look into

[Australian-n00b]

at 449mb with just 2 photos???

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

On a side note, I might have a memory leak somewhere... 11.5GB In use, that can't be right. 

[Australian-n00b]

Just now, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

On a side note, I might have a memory leak somewhere... 11.5GB In use, that can't be right. 

You use Edge YUCK  

[Enderman]

Sounds like your OS is pretty screwed up...

[Australian-n00b]

3 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Sounds like your OS is pretty screwed up...

2 people with the same issue???

 

one person ok issue

 

but 2 totally different PC's???

[Enderman]

11 minutes ago, Australian-n00b said:

2 people with the same issue???

 

one person ok issue

 

but 2 totally different PC's???

I see only one person with the photos app taking 7GB...

Did I miss something?

[vanished]

Yeah it does that sometimes.  Can't say I've noticed it recently and I don't know the steps to recreate it but I have seen it spike to insane levels of RAM usage like this in the past.

 

On a side note (sort of), you can enable and use the old style photo viewer that was in Windows 7 and prior if you want.  It's still present in Windows 10 (at least last time I checked), you just need to change a few registry keys and then pick it as an "open with" thing.

[homeap5]

I can imagine that Windows eats lot of memory when people using, for example, Ccleaner and clear thumbnails cache, then Microsoft programs like Photos must recreate that thumbnails cache based on photos folders recently opened for improve browsing experience in the future etc. So it may be vicious circle - cleaning cache, recreating cache (that may use lot of memory because multicore/multithreading operations).

 

Do you use any cleaners for that? Maybe some resident autorun program for "improving" memory management?

 

12 hours ago, Australian-n00b said:

at 449mb with just 2 photos???

Just 2 photos?

It looks like much more. For sure Windows trying to preload lot of them.

 

Look, it's just memory, it supposed to be used by programs to speed up everything.

 

And BTW. do you have pagefile (virtual memory) disabled?