.Net and Task Manager Memory

[Steve]

Currently I am generating a GUI program. When I first run the program the
memory is 80megs (viewed in the processes in the task manager). If I
minimize it reduces to 3megs. Then maximize it increases to 12. Could
anyone explain this to me? and maybe suggest a way to reducing the memory
before the Gui shows up. I have tried to force the garbage collection but
it does not change.

Steve

 

[Greg Young]

This is an OS level thing (not only .NET apps). When a window is minimized
it's working set is trimmed by the OS

http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;EN-US;293215

You could call the SetProcessWorkingSize API yourself but this will
negatively impact performance.

Cheers,

Greg Young
MVP - C#
http://codebetter.com/blogs/gregyoung