When a process eats into available memory and doesn’t release unused memory to the point of exhaustion – it is called a memory leak (more at Wikipedia). There’s a lot of confusion over why it uses so much memory and what the cause is. What is this all about? If looking in task manager and running the Windows Sidebar application, you might notice sidebar.exe using lots of memory. I just wanted to make a blog post though and say, if you’re reading this… you’re not alone in your confusion brother. This blogger recorded 1.3Gb of RAM hogged by the sidebar.exe process. My Googling concluded consumption varied depending on degrees of usage, what gadgets are being used and the system uptime. Quite some time back when using Vista, I noticed the sidebar.exe process generally consumes vast/large amounts of memory. Currently I’m running Windows 7, but I’ve noticed this problem also exists in the Windows Vista version as well. While I run Linux servers and nothing else, my preferred workstation operating system is Windows. Knowing what processes are running and how much memory they’re using seems to be a common pass time for a lot of people. As a sysadmin I like to know what is happening on my computer.
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