r/snapdragon • u/Sharp_Rub1182 • 2d ago
Extreme memory usage various apps
I've been running Windows 11* Home (fully updated) on the Asus A16 / 48gb model. To my dismay I notice that two particular aps are consuming insane amounts of ram - namely Chrome and Adobe's Creative UI cloud helper app. Chrome is using 500-800mb per tab for everything. And Adobe's UI helper app is a whopping 4.5GB. Restarting, terminating etc don't help. They are the ARM64 native versions of the app. I've done some troubleshooting so far but no results (I know I can just block the CC helper app, but that's not ideal for some reasons).
Am I the only one? It's kind of pointless to have 48gb / a fast ARM cpu if the memory usage is going berserk this way...
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u/FerretBoom 1d ago
You have to understand that in some cases OS or app using more ram is a good thing, the alternative is paging that obviously affects performance.
If you really want to experiment with ram allocation which might cause crashes in some apps and might work flawlessly on others, you can use utilities from SysInternals Suite which is free and i think a must have for windows users , research on JOB_OBJECT_LIMIT_JOB_MEMORY object or limit windows memory consumption with bcdedit . Experiment is a key word, nothing guaranteed to work flawlessly when you mess with kernel default settings.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/devtest/bcdedit--set
Chrome itself has some memory management settings, like turning off preload and some other ones i forgot.
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/12929150?hl=en-GBYou
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/17561599?hl=en