Unusual IE memory Usage

[xplatinum]

Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 (w/ all patches from WU)

Intel Core 2 Duo 3.00ghz E8400

4gb Ram PC-6400

Any reason why iexplore.exe would take up to 400mb of memory ?

3 Tabs open (2 static pages and 1 Live streaming TV channel)

Those are the only 3 tabs that have been open since bootup/iexplore

[alpha_omega]

Maybe because it's caching the stream itself or maybe because it's a cr*ppy browser per se... Or maybe a combination of both...

:D

[jamesVault]

Any reason why iexplore.exe would take up to 400mb of memory ?

Why you care about it? Your physical RAM usage is only 36%.

Free RAM is bad.

[xplatinum]

Why you care about it? Your physical RAM usage is only 36%.

Free RAM is bad.

If calc.exe (calculator) would take 300mb and I would still have 30% of memory usage then yes, I would most DEFINATELY care about it.

I care because it looks unusual to me, not because I'm low on free ram.

[jamesVault]

If calc.exe (calculator) would take...

but it's not calc.exe :D

Stop watching the numbers and start using your computer, seriously!

[xplatinum]

but it's not calc.exe :D

Stop watching the numbers and start using your computer, seriously!

Less assumption and more logic please :)

I want feedback on the 400mb process, not a lecture on what I should do with my PC.

[Extcee]

might be the TV stream....

Might be that you need firefox ;)

[Puggsley]

I have the same problem when streaming music from myspace. IE uses between 300-400mb of RAM and i cant use anything else until I close IE. Firefox doesnt have the same problem so it must be how IE handles some live streams

[soldier1st]

plugins/addons can increase memory usage,very buggy ones can up it even more and maybe cause ie to crash but vista handles memory differently,so free ram=wasted ram.ie is known to be a memory hog whenever it feels like it.

[Brandon Live Veteran]

Probably bugs with add-ins. If you want, you can use the Add-ins Manager from the Tools menu to disable any that you aren't using.

You probably don't want to disable Flash, though, which is the most likely culprit in this case.

Then again, this isn't always even a bug. The plug-in might be knowingly using this memory, and its usage may go down if memory pressure is added (ie. if free physical memory gets low due to other apps allocating memory).