Lower the memory footprint of Outlook drastically. (107MBs?????)

[Guest]

Outlook 2007 is a disaster when it comes to memory use. A user with 1GB of
RAM can expect Outlook to use 10-15% of available memory. This is
unacceptable IMHO.

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[Guest]

TJ,
I couldn't agree with you more. I have 2GB right now and when writing a long
email today my memory footprint was topping out at over 180MB!
This is way too much.
Will

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

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A screenshot of your Task Manager might be instructive.
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and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
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[Patrick Schmid]

Hi TJ and Will,

First, Outlook takes up a lot of memory, but releases it when other
applications request it. This way it can be fast when you have a lot of
memory available.
Second, this is a beta version. Beta versions always take up more RAM
than a release version.

Patrick Schmid

 

[Guest]

Thank you Sue, looks like a great tool if it doesnt suck up a lot of memory


TJ

 

[Massimo Dulisse]

Well, right I am using Outlook 2003 in safe mode, on Windows XP, with a brand
new (empty) PST file and connected to an IMAP server.
The memory footprint (Virtual size) is 373MB!!

Outlook conceptually is great, but on my laptop (1.5GB) I also need to run
other applications than just Outlook only.

Is there a way, some configuration settings, to reduce the memory used by
Outlook?

Thanks,

 

[Gordon]

Well, right I am using Outlook 2003 in safe mode, on Windows XP, with a
brand
new (empty) PST file and connected to an IMAP server.
The memory footprint (Virtual size) is 373MB!!

How are you seeing Outlook using 373MB RAM? My version of 2007 is only using
27MB.....

 

[Massimo Dulisse]

I am using Process Explorer (www.sysinternals.com) to gauge the VM size of
the process - that value is consistent with what I measured in the past with
the standard task manager.

Massimo

 

[Gordon]

I am using Process Explorer (www.sysinternals.com) to gauge the VM size of
the process - that value is consistent with what I measured in the past
with
the standard task manager.

Then there is something VERY VERY wrong - as I stated, my version of Outlook
2007 (currently running minimised in the systray) is only using 18MB
RAM.....are you sure your not looking at the disk space used by Office in
it's entirety?

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Well, right I am using Outlook 2003 in safe mode, on Windows XP, with a
brand
new (empty) PST file and connected to an IMAP server.
The memory footprint (Virtual size) is 373MB!!

Outlook conceptually is great, but on my laptop (1.5GB) I also need to run
other applications than just Outlook only.

And I'm using it actively and seeing a usage of 77MB.

But, frankly, why do you care? If you minimize Outlook and another process
needs the memory, the scheduler will swap Outlook out of memory and allow
the other process to use it. That's what virtual memory is all about.

 

[Massimo Dulisse]

Well, Office takes definitely more than 1.5 GB of disk space, doesn't it?

No, it's Virtual Memory size, truly.

 

[Gordon]

Well, Office takes definitely more than 1.5 GB of disk space, doesn't it?

Nope. What sort of Office have you got?
Office Standard here takes up 323 MB of disk space - about the same as you
think Outlook takes in RAM....

No, it's Virtual Memory size, truly.

Err how do you measure how much VIRTUAL memory an application takes up?
You are talking about the Pagefile?

 

[Massimo Dulisse]

Of course if I minimize Outlook the OS will swap out its pages. But haven't
you noticed that paging in/out has a tremendous impact on performance
(response time)?

That's not a solution to what appears to be a serious flaw in the product.
Some years ago I led a mission critical project where the system used an
Oracle database supporting 3+ million customers in real time. It used a
machine with 2GB of RAM...

 

[Massimo Dulisse]

Nope. What sort of Office have you got?
Office Standard here takes up 323 MB of disk space - about the same as you
think Outlook takes in RAM....


Err how do you measure how much VIRTUAL memory an application takes up?
You are talking about the Pagefile?

When I say process Virtual Memory size, I mean process Virtual Memory size,
not size of the paging file.

Any decent process explorer can report the VM size of each running process.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Of course if I minimize Outlook the OS will swap out its pages. But
haven't
you noticed that paging in/out has a tremendous impact on performance
(response time)?

That's not a solution to what appears to be a serious flaw in the product.

It's NOT a "serious flaw in the product" but a flaw in your PC
configuration. If it were a flaw in the product everyone would experience
it and has been proven by Gordon and me, that's not the case. It's likely
you have some add-in tied into Outlook that is causing the problem. Google
Desktop comes to mind as having evinced this error, but there may be others.

 

[Massimo Dulisse]

It's NOT a "serious flaw in the product" but a flaw in your PC
configuration. If it were a flaw in the product everyone would experience
it and has been proven by Gordon and me, that's not the case. It's likely
you have some add-in tied into Outlook that is causing the problem. Google
Desktop comes to mind as having evinced this error, but there may be others.

I started Outlook in safe mode, and that should exclude from loading all
plug-ins. Yet the memory issue is still there.