Minimizing form increases avail memory - a lot 1

[mrdance]

I have an application which takes about 54 MB after being loaded. When I minimize it and then maximize it it goes down to 12 MB and stays there.

Why is this happening? I have tried to run GC.Collect after loading the form but it does not change the memory. Is there anything I can do so that the taken memory decrease to 12 MB like when I minimized/maximized it?

thanks!

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[Dimandja]

Don't panic! This is designed behavior.

When the OS loads an application, it tries to anticipate memory needs -- erring on using the surplus which it has laying around unused. Once you minimize the app, the OS is tipped that the app really has a smaller "footprint" than anticipated -- thus the decrease.

I don't know the best way to simulate this in code, off-hand. And, I'm not even sure it is advisable to do it. Anyway, unused pages will get recycled when another app needs them, and when they are not being swapped to disk (virtual memory).

Dimandja