If you find that programs are slow to open, applications are slow to work, or your Windows computer is sluggish overall, a memory leak may be the reason. A memory leak occurs when the operating system ...

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Discord has started testing a drastic but necessary solution to address performance issues in its Windows desktop app. The company has launched an experiment called “restart on excessive memory use,” ...

Many users of macOS 12 Monterey are reporting massive memory leaks, as high as 70 GB or more, which causes Macs to run out of memory entirely and require a restart. At his Eclectic Light Company blog, ...