• Firefox apparently causing problems with dwm.exe

    From slate_leeper@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 5 07:37:00 2022
    Back in November I posted about Desktop Window Manager (dwm.exe) using excessive memory. Task manager would show it between 30-60mb for
    hours, but eventually it would start climbing by itself. The rate of
    climb would grow increasingly greater. Often within a day, the memory
    use of this process would be over 1 gigabyte and system response was S---L---O---W!

    I received some suggestions on this, and found some others with web
    searches. None have actually stopped this from occurring.


    At a guess, this suggests that some browser is asking DWM for
    memory

    Here is another example. This is early Windows 10,
    and it looks like it might be specific applications
    that bother DWM.

    https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/all/desktop-window-manager-dwmexe-memory-problems/5d7d7a88-be9c-4951-a329-2f9859922dd3?page=2

    Paul


    I think you are probably correct. This morning memory usage was at
    37.2mb. I opened Firefox, went to four websites and also to the
    settings page. After closing Firefox, memory was up to 173mb and
    steadily climbing even though Firefox was no longer running.

    -dan z-



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