Extreme large page - IE post processing?

[bbcommish]

I have a extremely large web page being served to the client - about 5.5MB. Obviously takes a while to render but my confusion is why IE (using ie6) takes so long if you then go to another page. Even something unrelated like google.

If I have the Task manager open when I try to go to another page it shows IEXPLORE.EXE using 100% cpu time for at least as long as it took to render the displayed page. I am not caching the page (using the http header - it's a jsp page) although I don't see that as a post-process step anyway.

Any ideas on what is causing the delay?

 

[bbcommish]

In case anyone is curious...

Looks like the problem was that I was placing a spacer.gif image in each cell to establish width/height. Thus, the DOM had 30000 image entries. The delay when leaving the page (I'm thinking) was simply IE removing the DOM entries from memory.

When I removed the gifs the delay is removed almost completely.

 

[gwar2k1]

Im glad u sorted it, i wanted to help but didnt have a clue sorry lol

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