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Memory leak in Remote Desktop version 1.2.5559.0 (x64) and a few versions back
Microsoft Remote Desktop has a memory leak. This started a few versions back; I thought maybe it would be fixed in succeeding versions, but it has not. You can watch with Task Manager and see it slow...
Ok, I think I may have determined the genesis of this issue. If the remote connection drops, Remote Desktop seems to start eating memory:
Here you can see it had consumed over 7 GB of memory! The remote connection had dropped (evidently because the remote server was rebooted).
After closing the desktop app, the main process still remained, so I had to manually kill it via Task Manager: