Some Programs Using Huge Amounts of RAM

[AsGStorm]

Alright, I've seen Firefox use 70MB (!!) of RAM, and mIRC use 20MB. Upon asking others, the main thing a guy who has 4GB of RAM uses 8MB on mIRC (with a script on top). Now I've got this shortcut "%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks" that defrags the RAM or something and puts my firefox down quite a bit, but eventually it goes up again, is there any trick/tweak/program to help with my problems? I'm quite sure I can get some more performance by improving the RAM usage.

 

[W1zzard]

70 MB is like nothing considering 2 GB or 4 GB installed memory

Idle Task Scheduling: The ProcessIdleTask API
The file placement optimization, which is done no more often than once every three days, is an example of a task that is carried out when the system is deemed to be idle. System Restore and other features of Windows XP also attempt to defer some work until the system is deemed to be idle. There are also some done-once-after-setup work items that also operate under the Idle Task Scheduling mechanisms.

All of these "idle tasks" are controllable by a system API in advapi32.dll, ProcessIdleTasks. The APIs sole purpose is to allow benchmarks a simple way to force any pending idle tasks to be executed immediately, without having to wait a lengthy period of time.

so processidletasks does the disk reorganization thingie that is launched when your system is idle for a long time

 

[Jimmy 2004]

I think Firefox has a memory leak which means it gradually takes more and more ram - it's using 77MB on my system right now, and that's nothing unusual. It can easily go above 100MB if I'm using several tabs. I don't think there is anyway to get around it, just have to live with it or us IE.

 

[Kreij]

Who cares if FF is eating up 70MB (or more) of your 2GB ?
You bought the memory for the computer to use, didn't you?

I personally don't want to spend money on components that sit there doing nothing.

Just my 2 cents.

 

[Random Murderer]

my firefox uses less than a MB when i have a ton of tabs open, even with my BAJILLION add-ons.
use the firefox ultimate optimizer

 

[AsGStorm]

cool thanks, this thing's pretty damn good. is there a way to make firefox run the optimizer when firefox.exe is opened?

 

[Random Murderer]

cool thanks, this thing's pretty damn good. is there a way to make firefox run the optimizer when firefox.exe is opened?

no, but you can set it to run when windows starts. that's how i have mine.