Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Build 14942: Increases RAM Usage

[JimmiG]

Was there an issue with service reliability to begin with? I've used win2k, winxp pro, vista (briefly) and win7 but can't recall any major issues. I'm just curious what all these issues are they set out to fix.

Yeah, google svchost high cpu usage and watch the carnage. I've experienced a couple of them on Win 7 machines. Windows update maxing a core 24/7 while it ran it circles. Audio driver that wouldn't quit gracefully after alt-f4 out of games. Netsvcs too. I think is more of a sandboxing thing, like when Chrome first started running Flash instances as separate processes.

This is true, but poorly written services will continue to be poorly written when they run in their own process. This will only make troubleshooting somewhat easier since you'll immediately be able to tell which service is using all your CPU instead of having to use tools such as Process Explorer.

 

[Guest]

OS which uses more RAM is not a good OS, RAM is for applications and games so statement like 'finally use of my 32gb of RAM' is bottom stupid. Such OS is not going to be good for Tablets and Phones since MS. i still trying to make their stupid AIO idea work. In other words Windows 10 is shit and it will be.

 

[tacgnol06]

On my system, SVCHost has been artificially setting aside RAM and refusing to free it up after closing apps. Running into situations where I'm using half of my 16 GB of ram, but getting "out of memory" errors because SCVHost as reserved too much of it (under "Committed" in task manager), where rebooting is the only solution. So I welcome this change.

 

[tacgnol06]

I'm having issues with SVCHost not properly freeing up "Committed" memory, resulting in Out of Memory errors even when I'm showing only half of my physical RAM is being used, forcing me to restart. Will be nice to basically have direct control over my RAM use again.