MVC ASP.NET is using a lot of memory

Question

If I just browse some pages on the app, it sits at around 500MB. Many of these pages access the database but at this point in time, I only have roughly a couple of rows each for

Answer 1

You may need to read the data in chunks and write to the output stream. Take a look at SqlDataReader.GetBytes http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.sqlclient.sqldatareader.getbytes(v=vs.110).aspx