windows 7 using too much RAM on enabling auto update

Moin95 · 09 Jan 2016

I am using windows 7 Home premium 64 bit. It started using a lot of RAM around 3.5 GB and sometimes 3.85 GB out of 4 GB on enabling automatic updates, but when I disable updates the RAM usage drop downs to 1.3 GB. Why is that?

Baddog22556 · 09 Jan 2016

Maybe try using your Resource Monitor and see if the upgrade is the culprit or something causing the
memory leak. You could also look into the Task Manager for extended usage.

AddRAM · 09 Jan 2016

You should never enable auto update.

whs · 09 Jan 2016

What are your intentions - do you want to save your RAM for a rainy day. If I were you, I would be happy if all the RAM that I paid a lot of money for is being used.

Golden · 09 Jan 2016

Moin95 said:

I am using windows 7 Home premium 64 bit. It started using a lot of RAM around 3.5 GB and sometimes 3.85 GB out of 4 GB on enabling automatic updates, but when I disable updates the RAM usage drop downs to 1.3 GB. Why is that?

Its using as much RAM as possible because that's the fastest way of completing the updates in the shortest time possible.

Moin95 · 09 Jan 2016

Baddog22556 said:

Maybe try using your Resource Monitor and see if the upgrade is the culprit or something causing the
memory leak. You could also look into the Task Manager for extended usage.

process named svchost.exe is taking most of the RAM.