Take the 2-minute tour ×  Is it possible to recover memory lost
from w3wp.exe? I thought a session.abandon() should clear up the
resources like that? The thing is I have a web application,
certain pages make w3wp.exe grow significantly. Like from 40 MB
to 400 MB. Now I am going to optimize my code defiantly to
reduce this, however for what ever amount the w3wp.exe grows, is
there no way to recover the lost memory even when the user has
logged out and closed the browser?  I know this worker process
will recycle after 30 minutes (default) of idle use, but what if
there is no idle use-age for a long time and the worker process
still has that portion of memory, it just keeps on growing? Any
thoughts people?  share|improve this question Are you seeing the
memory footprint of the service growing when you start a new
session after closing out an old one? –  Achilles Jul 29 '10 at
13:38 Yes. My w3wp.exe goes to 400MB on a specific page, even
after user logging out (session.abandon()), the next user comes
in, visits t