I have LS on my 2000 machine, it uses around 2500K with the default simplicity theme.
However, I installed it on my XP machine, same config/theme, but LS takes up around 16000K - ????

I can't figure it out, does anybody know why this is the case?

Simply because XP is a huge piece of s...
Go back to Win2K and your life will be easier

ilmcuts knows for sure... ;)

Egonz: not really.

Be very careful with those numbers. Don't trust task manager. :P

For example, if you link to a 20 MB DLL it is mapped into your app's memory. That means task manager adds the 20 MB in the memory usage column, even if you use zero function from the DLL so it's not even loaded into the RAM. If you leave your app running for a while and launch other programs in the meantime you'll see the memory usage decrease (in task manager). For example, on my win2k setup task manager says LS uses about 6 MB right after login. At the moment (ie. a few hours later) it says 3 MB. Same with the "virtual memory usage" column, so it doesn't just move the numbers from one column to the other. =)
It's very hard to determine the "real" memory usage. I don't know if there even is a proper way. What would you do for example if you have a DLL that is used by two programs? Add it to both? Just to one? If so, to which one, and why?

well i expected an answer like that :) i knew it but couldn't explain it :D

just as i suspected!!!

o_0

thanks ilmcuts :)

I have an app for recording my vinyls... its advantages is to be able to store all the stuff in RAM. When I'm recording about one hour of sound, it should (and it really do, because I can see my meters showing this) use several hundreds of Mb... and the task manager says 26854Kb !!!