aspnet_wp takes a lot of memory even after appdomain restarted

[Guest]

Hi.

We have a computer that has only one virtual directory (webservice) - when
working with the webservice the memory consumption of the aspnet_wp is going
to an avg of 320 mg.
140 mg of that is cached objects.

when I edit the web.config the appdomain is restarted and i see that the
memory goes down to approx 200 and not to 0
Any ideas on how this can be? why is there about 200 mg?

 

[Scott Allen]

The appdomain starts up inside the same worker process. In general,
server processes are reluctant to return reserved memory to the OS
since they plan on needing it again when requests start pouring in.
Know what I mean?

 

[Guest]

The problem is that i didnt make any request to the webservice.
And from what i know the restart of appdomain suppose to remove a huge part
of the memory it consumes.
But in my case there is about 180 mg reserved.