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Massive memory leak in Power Toys Launcher #34489

Open alastair-mcdonald opened 2 weeks ago

alastair-mcdonald commented 2 weeks ago

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.83.0.0

Installation method

PowerToys auto-update

Running as admin

Yes

Area(s) with issue?

PowerToys Run

Steps to reproduce

After a while the powertoys.powerlouncher.exe process uses up almost all available RAM, 91% used of 64Gb.

There was insufficient memory available to take a screenshot of task manager's details view.

Memory usage is ok for a while. e.g. after killing the process and restarting usage is currently 219,928K, and it took perhps 2 hours for memory usage to reach 55GB after a restart of the powertoys.powerlouncher.exe process.

✔️ Expected Behavior

No memory leak.

❌ Actual Behavior

After a while the powertoys.powerlouncher.exe process uses up all available RAM. 55Gb.

Other Software

No response

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