Vista - Memory Usage Revisited

Ok guys, I've done some experimentation on my work PC around the memory
usage of WLM.

I've completely uninstalled WLM and deleted the folder under %APPDATA%, so
this install is essentially a clean install.

I reinstalled and ran WLM and immediately it climed to around 120MB of
memory in Task Manager.

I then realised that my 120+ RSS feeds would probably be chewing up most of
that memory, so I deleted all of them from WLM (but not from IE7's common
feed list). Closed WLM & compacted the data store.

Reran again - 120MB of memory usage.

This was with NO email accounts, NO feeds, and NO newsgroups.

I've since subscribed to this newsgroup so I could post this message. It's
currently sitting at 172MB in Task Manager.

This is XP Professional. We run Symantec antivirus - not sure if that could
be contributing somehow. I know in an earlier thread about memory usage
someone asked me what AV I use (none on my home PC and laptop, both of which
display similar memory usage behaviour).

So ... WLM team! Any idea why it's chewing up so much memory? Is there some
sort of diagnostic utility I can run to break down where the RAM is being
used?

Cheers,
Matt

My memory usage is 44 MG.

Was your anti-virus running when you installed WLM?

How much mail was imported?

What folder are you viewing when you check the memory usage?
--
Ronald Sommer

"Matt Hamilton" <mabster@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Ron,

Yes, the AV would have been running while I installed WLM. I don't think I'm
able to turn it off on the work PC - it's an enterprise-wide setting.

No mail was imported - this was a clean install. No accounts set up at all.

As for the folder I was viewing ... well, whatever the initial folder is
when you have no accounts. Probably "All inbox" or "Unread e-mail".

Cheers,
Matt

"Ron Sommer" <rsommer@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm running at 39 MB with a POP and one HTTP account. I have several news
subscriptions and only 4 RSS feeds. This was not a clean install. I have
upgraded with every new release for about 6 months. I have Symantec AV on
this XP Pro laptop.


"Matt Hamilton" <mabster@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm really starting to think it's RSS-feed related.
I'm subscribed to 153 feeds in IE7's feed store, and most people posting
here don't seem to have anywhere near that many feeds.

If you look in your storage folder for WLM, there's a file called
"RssFeeds.xml", and that has a line for each feed I'm subscribed to like
this:

<Feed Guid="{E96F3D94-31EA-49F8-B691-EADE742239FE}"
Folder="FFFFFFFF" ShowSummary="true" />

.... even though I've *deleted all the feeds* from WLM.

Removing those lines from that XML file makes WLM restore all the feeds and
folders, so it obviously needs those there to tell it *not* to add the feeds
to its own feed database.

Perhaps just the fact that I have that many feeds is somehow affecting WLM's
memory usage, even though I've deleted them all from WLM.

Any MSFT guys reading who care to comment?

"osu9400" <osu9400@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ditto..More info needed.

In XpSp2 Pro with Symantec AV 27MB
In Vista U with Nod32 AV 38 MB(though two additional http mail accounts and
two more news servers)

--
...winston
ms-mvp windows live mail


"Ron Sommer" <rsommer@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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