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Finally figured out what is going on with memory. Windows is taking memory for its I/O cache and it does not release it. Since FFS is doing most of the I/O it just seems like it is the one taking all the memory. To see if this is your problem first check this article http://wasthatsohard.wordpress ...

I am comparing 13TB of data with over 21 million files. It does the compare in 45 minutes ( I do have 32 gigs of ram )

yes, the total files compared was 21,000,000. out of those 7,000 files where copied to back up drive. Thank you for a program that is able to manage such amount of data.

and Yes again, the 2 gigs missing that I am referring to is "Physical memory" being used which went from 16.5 to 19.1 even after ...

these are the processes before FFS
https://data.alemano.com/pics/procbeforerun1.png
memory usage is 16.5 before running FFS
https://data.alemano.com/pics/membeforerun2.png
after running compare FFS was taking 6.2 gig of memory
https://data.alemano.com/pics/aftercompare3.png

There were 200GB ...

my system is using 14 gb out of 32gb when I run FFS I see the memory usage go to 16 gb once the program is done with compare and also synchronize it keeps the 2 gb of memory ( I am using process explorer by sysinternals to see usage) when I quit FFS, I see it releasing all the memory ( slowly and it ...

I am also having problems with FFS not releasing memory. I am using 5.15 64bit and copying about 900 GB of data. When FFS is running it uses about 2 GB of memory and when it is done it releases most of it but not all.