We have a group of employees who are required to use IE (8, 9 or 10 doesn't seem to make a difference in the issue). When they navigate to the website they are suppose to use, an application loads that uses Silverlight.
During the use of this application, the computer becomes bogged down, usually to a halt, rendering the program and computer unusable.
A look in Task Manager finds that iexplorer.exe hits 1,200,000 K of Memory (Private Working Set). Shutting down IE eventually removes the iexplorer.exe process. Restarting the browser and navigating the to same site will put the iexplorer.exe process at 120,00K Memory... this number, through use of the Silverlight application, will cause the iexplorer.exe process to grow its Memory usage, 200,000K, 430,000K, 780,000K, etc... it never seems to go down, even if the application is idol.
Is this a memory leak in the application?