Memory consumption chages when minimising window

[John Lokanis]

I have come across a very strange thing. If my app is consuming ~100M of memory according to the task manager and then I minimise the window the memory consumption drops to ~5M. If I restore the window, the memory climbs to ~7M and then will creep back up as I continue to use the application.

What is going on? Does LabVIEW wait to do a bunch of garbage collection until you minimise the window?

The only controls are a list box and some buttons so it is not like I have a huge graphic or charts or anything on the front panel.

:question:

-John

(note: LabVIEW built EXE running under 8.5 RTE)

[LAVA 1.0 Content]

This a behavior you can observe with any other application. Try Internet explorer or any other application and you will observe the same thing you describe.

Start Iexplorer = 42 MB

Minimise Iexplorer = 3 MB

Maximise Iexplorer = 8 MB

I don't know why windows have this behavior.

[LAVA 1.0 Content]

QUOTE (pdc @ Oct 25 2008, 11:30 AM)

I don't know why windows have this behavior.

Now I know, see this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/293215' rel='nofollow' target="_blank">link.

[John Lokanis]

QUOTE (pdc @ Oct 27 2008, 06:43 AM)

Now I know, see this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/293215' rel='nofollow' target="_blank">link.

Thanks for clearing that up!