High Memory Consumption
The computer memory, sometimes referred
to as Random Access Memory (RAM), temporarily stores your application
data for immediate use by the application only. This makes the device
memory very crucial to application performance. But since it is
used as a temporary storage only, when you shut down your device,
the RAM is cleared and the information stored information is erased.
Each application you have running on your device consumes a portion
of the RAM to store its data. So, the more applications you have
open, the more memory you consume. At some point, the memory consumption
hits a threshold after which your computer begins to slow down and
your application response time gets longer. The threshold for memory
utilization here is set to 95% of its capacity. When your device
reaches or crosses the 95% threshold, you receive the following
notification.
Notification Text | What it means | Suggested remediation |
Your device has used 96% of available memory.
This might impact application performance. | Your device is consuming over 95% of its total
memory capacity. This could happen when there are too many applications
running on your device or you have too many browser tabs open. | Close the applications that you
are not currently using. If your browser has multiple tabs open, close the tabs that
you may not currently need. If you still see application performance issues, try restarting
your machine.
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Clicking on the notification opens the Application
Experience UI. It provides details about the notification
along with some suggestions to fix the issue.
The Learn More link opens a time series
historical chart displaying the status of the memory usage during
the last 3 hours. A slider bar placed at the right end of the chart
by default shows you the most recent status. Move your mouse sideways
on the chart across various points in time, to understand the historical
status of the active area. Depending on where you mouse over and click
in the chart, you can view the status and recommendation that was
indicated at that specific time within the 3-hour window. The red
dots indicate that a notification appeared on your device at that
time where the dot appears.