title: .NET WinForm Memory Consumption
body: <p>I've been profiling a WinForm's application using ".NET Memory Profiler".</p>
  
  <p>I can't quite seem to understand how my application is growing to 1GB, then 2GB, then 3GB of usage - according to windows task manager.</p>
  
  <p>The private bytes using that tool, and "Total Bytes in All Heaps" shows only as 70MB or so. At the top of my list of instances hanging around, they are mostly String, or WeakReferences to lots of little objects.</p>
  
  <p>All the application is doing is showing a form that loads data from a database. I repeat the show/dispose cycle of the form about 100 times and the growth is continuous.</p>
  
  <p>I've tried about 3 memory profiling tools now and none of them are showing me where this enormous amount of memory consumption is coming from.</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone help or take a guess as to what it might be?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks. </p>