Memory Usage in Outlook 2003

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Jaime

does anyone know the reason outlook 2003 memory usage starts so hi and
continues to climb with what look like no end in sight, Mozilla thunderbird
starts and runs all day at about 14k memory usage, whereas Outlook 03 starts
at 39k and by simply mousing over toolbar buttons memory starts to climb,
send/receive? climbs some more and with every send/receive more memory used,
i wouldnt worry about the memory except it doesnt it doesnt free the memory
once the operation completes so after a full day i would be sitting at over
80k of memory tied up by oulook...:( any ideas???
 
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Pat Willener

You may have gotten your numbers slightly wrong. On my system I have
- Thunderbird running with about 60MB (running from today)
- Outlook2003 running with about 12MB (running since last week)

Assuming you *do* mean MB as well (not KB), do you have any plugins
running on OL? What is your OL setup?
 
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Roady [MVP]

Aside from the fact you probably meant MB instead of KB memory management
works a bit more complex than that. In a nutshell;
As long as there is still memory available and Outlook is being used memory
won't be returned to the system so the application will respond faster when
you repeat your actions. Memory will be freed when another application
requests memory and there is none available.

Add-ins however might behave differently and could hog some memory.
Unfortunately this will show for the outlook.exe process as well. You could
try disabling your add-ins and check the performance of Outlook then.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-FREE tool; QuickMail. Create new Outlook items anywhere from within Windows
-Properly back-up and restore your Outlook data
 
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Jaime

nope i got the numbers correct, thats why i am writing this post because it
seems unusually hi and i meant to say 14MB but was lookin at the K in task
Manager, when i opened my OL to read this email, it started at 37MB, and
sitting here now about to press send while i type this response and after
reading just 3 other emails its at 58MB while thunderbird started and sits at
19,080k, and reading the same emails climbed to 24MB, with no addins in
outlook
 
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Roady [MVP]

No, that is normal. As I said; as soon as you run out of memory and Outlook
is not the active application it will return the memory it's not using.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-FREE tool; QuickMail. Create new Outlook items anywhere from within Windows
-Properly back-up and restore your Outlook data

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