Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

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Link: Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM - Notebookcheck News

 

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Microsoft has been working to make Windows 11 more efficient on PCs with limited RAM, but one of its own built-in applications appears to be working against that goal. According to tests published by Windows Latest, the operating system's Weather app can consume more than 1 GB of memory despite performing a relatively simple task.

 

Windows Latest reports that the app exceeded 1.2 GB of RAM while displaying a weather forecast, with no intensive interaction from the user. Wccftech observed similar behavior, noting that memory usage typically starts at around 1 GB, drops to roughly 500–600 MB when idle, and can climb to 1.5–1.6 GB during basic actions such as zooming or navigating the interface. On a PC equipped with 8 GB of RAM, that means the application alone may occupy nearly 20% of the system's memory...

 

[3s-gtech]

I think I already added it to the Intune kill list. Junk running in the background annoys the hell out of me.

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With Moore's Law currently going backwards (costs per performance are actually going up) - maybe this will bring some software developers to actually work towards optimising their software again.

Having a lot of computing power has enabled dysfunctional organisations to just throw crap to the wall and see what sticks. Perhaps now that might be worked on?

 

E.G. NT4 ran on a 33Mhz single core CPU with 16MB of RAM. Windows 11 has over 1000 times more computing power yet does it work that much better than NT4? (There's some "law" in the vein of moore's law that states that software performance actually stays static despite increases in performance due to bloat and mismanagement)