[SOLVED] Why do I have multiples of the same processes running in task manager?

[austinl93]

I have 16 gigabytes of ddr4 ram, even when I don't have anything open background tasks are taking up about 20% of my systems ram. At all times I have at least 6 Microsoft edge webview2 running in the background although I've never used edge on my computer I use firefox. I have 5 nvidia containers running, 4 razer synapse, 5 runtime brokers, 3 asus nodejs frameworks, 2 armory crate services. Is there a way to free up some of my ram by stopping multiples of the same programs from running in the background?

 

[hotaru.hino]

20% just after booting sounds normal.

Some applications spawn multiple processes to handle certain aspects of that application. Web browsers for instance separate the rendering engine, javascript stuff, and other things so that if any one of them dies, the whole thing doesn't die. It just gets respawned. It's a lot easier to do this with a process than a thread.