Excessive Memory Consumption in blank-ish WinForms application

Question

Why is my Windows Forms application consuming more and more memory when it\'s a blank app and not even being used by the user (me)?

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Answer 1

The GC is not collecting unused memory, since it's is very small.

You can try forcing the GC collect (not a good practice, just for testing)

public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        _timer.Interval = 10000;
        _timer.Tick += _timer_Tick;
        _timer.Start();
    }

    void _timer_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        GC.Collect();
    }

After this the memory stays at 3.2 MB at my PC :)