VM using extremely high RAM but only running Outlook

Discussion in 'General Questions' started by JonathanP24, Mar 3, 2026.

  1. JonathanP24

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    Since about last week, the VM is using anywhere from 20-50GB of RAM but I literally only have Outlook open on the Windows side. I'm not sure why it's taxing the system so heavily, but every time I try to open an email or attachment, it will spin for 5-10 seconds before it does anything. I'm running an M2 Max with 96GB of RAM, so I can't imagine it would be a hardware issue. I upped the memory allocated to the VM to 6 processors and 48GB of RAM, and it's slightly better but not much. Any idea why the system is running so slow? Is there a way to revert to an earlier version or a fix for this one? Running 26.2.2 and Windows 11 Pro
     

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