Windows 10: High Memory usage when using Utorrent

When I am using Utorrent my RAM usage grows from around 20% to nearly 100% over a few hours and can eventually freeze the PC. This seems to have started happening from the last Preview releases until now. Windows defender and Malwarebytes could be part of the problem. When not using Utorrent everything is OK.
Any ideas ?

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Windows 10 High Memory usage

In the past, I did all these things. I don't think this is relevant now. I am only experiencing this high memory usage when I use utorrent, I cannot see how a video driver issue or a malware issue would only show up when I use utorrent to download but
not at any other time. I believe this is some kind of system security issue when downloading torrent files but Microsoft don't seem to want to comment.

 

High memory usage

I am experiencing very high memory usage when using utorrent to download. Normal use at start-up is around 4Gb in use, 2Gb Standby and 9.5 Gb free. Over 5-6 Hrs this can grow to 11-12 Gb in use, the rest in Standby and nil free., it can eventually crash
utorrent on low memory and just has. Preview versions were doing the same.

PC is i7-4790 on MSI Z97 gaming 7 mobo withGeforce GTX760 + 16Gb of DDR3 ram

 

Hi,
why not try uninstalling it and then reinstalling it, its a small program. If not try using the portable version to see if it yields the same results, the portable version is not installed but simply ran.
Also what files are currently being used by p2p, anything suspicious? You are vulnerable to others via this p2p network, and there could be malicious activity.

 

Thanks I've tried that and no improvement. As for suspicious files, I've been using Utorrent since 8.1 (and before) and downloading from pretty much the same servers and had no problem until WIN 10 ?

 

May be worth trying a different client. Have a look at this one

qBittorrent official website

 

Weird .. I try mine and it runs around 20% stable ...
Good idea to reinstall it again ...

 

Just found a thread that indicated that Windows Network Data Usage Monitoring (Ndu), possibly together with Killer Network drivers was the problem and that is what I have. I stopped Ndu and the problem has gone!! Looks like a bug fix for Microsoft

 

Mine seems to be running fine too. Is UTorrent up to date? It's updated a lot.
qBittorrent is also very nice, but I have grown accustomed to using uTorrent.

 

Make sure you have downloaded the latest Killer Network application and driver, they just updated it recently. I also have Killer Networking and NDU running at the same time, no problem with uTorrent.

Killer Networking - Driver Downloads

 

Thanks for that. Are you using the Killer Network drivers only or the Killer Network Suite?

 

Killer Network Suite, I need it. Very useful for me while playing online games while downloading, uploading or streaming.

 

You might also check out Deluge (uses libtorrent - cpu & memory efficient implementation)
I have been testing this project for almost an year and find it generally better on resources and does not require advanced tweaking like uttorent. It's more spartan in looks, but it gets the job done.

 

I would not use utorrent. It installs trojans and malware on your system.

 

I had a few problems with utorrent but they all seem to be working fine now. I uninstalled version 3.2.1 and went back to utorrent 2.2.1.
Utorrent is only using 24% and I have been checking that also. No spikes for me on this desktop.
@AmonShiraq
Really!! Why not download utorrent from a proper site and not get a hacked version (just suggesting). That could have been your problem for Trojans and malware. I have never had any problems like that with utorrent and I have been using it for many years. It seems I did have a few problems when I first upgraded to Windows 10 but it's working normal now.

cheers