Windows 10: Green Leaf suspend process and Photos

Discus and support Green Leaf suspend process and Photos in Windows 10 BSOD Crashes and Debugging to solve the problem; Windows 10 I have several pictures open in photos, and according to the Task Manager, it is using 663 MB of RAM. This seems about right as they are... Discussion in 'Windows 10 BSOD Crashes and Debugging' started by Gorgor666, Dec 16, 2020.

  1. Gorgor666 Win User

    Green Leaf suspend process and Photos


    Windows 10


    I have several pictures open in photos, and according to the Task Manager, it is using 663 MB of RAM. This seems about right as they are rather large.


    In Task Manager, every few seconds, the green leaf comes up for Photos, and the RAM drops down to almost nothing. Then a few seconds later, the green leaf disappears, and RAM goes back up to 663 MB.


    If it's truly temporarily returning the RAM for other processes to use, and suspending the process to save energy, as the green leaf description seems to suggest, the computer must be doing a ton of electronic work shoving this 663 MB out somewhere for a few seconds, then loading it back into RAM again, over and over and over and over and over.


    The cycle is about 10s no green leaf with RAM use, then 4s green leaf with almost no RAM use.


    What is it doing, and is this massive electronic shift not actually very green at all?


    And this seems related: My whole system locks up for a few seconds while the RAM is paging back in from wherever it goes during green leaf. This was what made me look into the task manager to see what was hogging the CPU. I only coincidentally noticed the green leaf appearing and disappearing, along with the massive RAM disappearance for Photos.


    Test: Hold down a letter key and it repeats. Green leaf disappears and the autotype pauses, frozen at the same moment. Large RAM use appears for Photos and autotype resumes.


    I can only guess Photos is doing something periodically, thwarting the OS assumption it is a program ok to suspend. Perhaps the green leaf facility should monitor fussbudget programs like Photos and not suspend them after the first 10,000 cycles.

    :)
     
    Gorgor666, Dec 16, 2020
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  2. Taskmgr: process with the "green leaf icon"?

    The green leaf icon in Task Manager indicates that a process is suspended. Suspending a process saves energy, and Microsoft chose to represent this with a green leaf. Let me know if you have any further questions.
     
    Riley Lynn Nairn, Dec 16, 2020
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  3. Martmcd Win User
    green leaf icon

    where are you seeing the green leaf icon?

    it is shown in task manager indicating processes that are currently suspended. it does nothing itself. in order to stop it showing here you would have to prevent processes from being suspended.

    it appears in the taskbar (on the battery icon) when it is in battery save mode, to prevent the green leaf icon you need to prevent the device going into battery saver mode - settings -> system -> battery. untick battery saver.

    if you are seeing it somewhere else, please provide a screenshot
     
    Martmcd, Dec 16, 2020
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  4. zbook Win User

    Green Leaf suspend process and Photos

    Green Leaf Icon?

    Viewing task manager now there are four green leaf icons.
    Hovering over them with the mouse displayed the same message:

    Code:
    The icons appeared in the rows for: Microsoft Edge (37) , Cortana (2) , SkypeApp (2), Windows Shell Experience Host

    When the down arrow was expanded it displayed rows with suspended.
    For Microsoft Edge there were 21 displaying suspended.

    The Microsoft Edge displayed (37) with the green leaf icon.
    However it was not suspending all 37.
    When the down arrow was expanded there were 21 of 37 webpages displaying suspended.

    UWP is Universal Windows Platform:
    What's a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app? - Windows UWP applications | Microsoft Docs
     
    zbook, Dec 16, 2020
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