On 29/03/2011 16:04, Bob Eager wrote:

Reasonable enough. It probably preloads commonly used stuff (e.g. DLLs)
into it on startup, because it'll ultimately be quicker to load them from
there, than from the original files. Standard enough.


Windows maps large sections of DLLs into memory, then demand-pages them
into RAM. Unless they have fixups applied (loaded at non-default
address) or the files are compressed, when it can't.

Andy