How to stop explorer.exe and/or SearchApp.exe from using large RAM space

  • Thread starter Phil Culverhouse1
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Phil Culverhouse1

We have a high speed camera saving small images (mostly <32KB) to disk at a rate of 166 per second for 24 hours or longer. We have a test program that replicates the camera output for testing. Both cause problems in recent tests with WIN11 and WIN10.Under win10 and win11 I've noticed that something in the OS is using large amounts of RAM, even though I've turned off file indexing (Windows Search service) and stopped anti-virus checks of the folders being written to.I can write 70,000 images in 10 minutes and consume many GB of file space in an hour or so.Yet, the OS grinds to a halt with so

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