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Are you syncing? Once synced, restart steemd.exe. steemd.exe should be taking up about 500+ MB RAM.

I'm synced when that occured, but now it's only taking 250MB ;)

There were some spams before the recent 0.12 hardfork. After the hardfork, the performance feature kicks in. And you get the much lower memory usage.

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