Reasons for the high process memory usage in Windows Live Messenger


Posted by absorbation on 06 May 2006 (5069 views)
If there is one major problem with Windows Live Messenger, it has to be how it uses up far too much process memory. It is highly annoying, and with my low amount of ram, I find I have to close messenger down to use other programs. Also a lot of the time messenger is running in the background and I just want it to be there silent hardly doing anything, but alas this is not the case. However, Kobol has potentially discovered the cause.

I used NoRooms ListCleaner and removed all of the contacts that had deleted me from their list (there were about 80), all of the people I was allowing to see my status even though they werent on my list and I wasnt on theirs (omg, there was a lot, at least 160), and all the people im blocking that deleted me and I deleted them (about 60)....I then deleted all the Address Book Entries corresponding to these contacts...and Wallah, My Messenger Memory Usage is now down to 20MB with 1 chat window open...thats 60MB less than before I cleaned it.



It seems the more contacts you have, the more process memory Windows Live Messenger uses up. Also, address book entries for deleted contacts would use up process memory unless they are cleared, so even after you deleted a contact it uses up your system resources. It is a very nice find indeed.

So ... what does this mean? Well luckily, you don't have to clean all your contacts up, although it may help, Kobol has told the Windows Live Messenger team and hopefully they should work on a solution. Let's hope it happens.


Source: eXoenDo's Blog

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