Why is Maya using 625MB of memory when it's not even doing anything?

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Maya just caused my computer to crash.

Upon re-opening it, I see that there are 4 processes going on in it(without me having opened up a scene) and it is using 638MB of disk space.

What is it doing?? how do I get it to stop all these host executables?638MB of internal memory being used by Maya when its in the idle state

[rajasekaransurjen]

Hi,

To avoid your computer to crash, change your virtual memory to an other disk.

This may help.....

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Changing-the-virtual-mem...

[mspeer]

Hi!

This can happen. Just force it to be closed/removed by using "End Process" for the Maya.exe.

You should check for a still loaded process in Task Manager after every crash of any software.