Workloadssessionhost RAM and battery hog?

Laptops Technical Support
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Anytime I use copilot in any form (365, in edge, copilot button, etc.) a bunch of Workloadssessionhost processes begin, and one of them always immediately starts consuming 2GB+ of RAM. I have 32GB and that’s overkill for me anyways so it’s not the RAM usage I’m concerned about, but how much battery life is this likely taking? TBH I use copilot for work and other things and actually like it, but the RAM usage seems kind of insane. I can’t tell if closing it really helps with battery or not. In general, I find that because my computer has more RAM, processes that wouldn’t take much RAM on a 16GB laptop are just pumped full of RAM for no reason. In principle I don’t mind as long as it doesn’t hurt battery life too much.

Thoughts?

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I think you can uninstall it or at least disable it.

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I can disable it but using AI reactivates it. So I guess what I’m asking is whether high RAM usage consumes a substantial amount of battery or if the overall effect is negligible.