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Memory leak in Microsoft Remote Desktop client
- Sean34624352345312May 30, 2024Copper Contributor
Kidd_Ip Not sure which version you're referring to, but my windows 11 machine is up to date, the RDP client is 10.0.22, hyper-v manager is 10.0.22621.1.
I inadvertently posted this in the Azure channel (wasn't looking closely enough, apologies), but this issue isn't azure specific. I'm not using azure. It's definitely a memory-leak in RDP, and it affects both normal RDP, and hyper-V sessions (which is RDP under the hood).
I have 3 large monitors (not sure if that matters), and when I stream video to an RDP session (as an example of high data throughput), I can see the consumed memory on the host increasing, and it is not ever released until the RDP session is terminated. If I don't terminate the session and restart, it will consume memory till OS failure and I have to hard reboot.
- Sean34624352345312Jul 08, 2024Copper Contributor
Finally isolated the issue. I was running my Lenovo Legion in Dynamic graphics mode (bios setting). By setting it to dedicated GPU (discrete mode), the memory leak disappeared.