Memory consumption and optimization

Seems like each instance of the store takes between 400MB to 496MB
(that's the IIS worker process in task manager - and it does not go below 400MB)


I'm trying to figure out how many stores I can (safely) host on one server...

Is there a way to limit the memory to let's say 200MB or reduce it so it will not eat up all the server memory?


Is it taking so much because everything is being cached?

I would love to know how to optimize it so the IIS worker process can be reduced...

Thanks in advance.

Can anybody please apply the changeset 51cf96ce8d4d and test it out on your hosting? Please let me know if memory consumption is dropped

i cant edit my source so is there any other way i can test this fix?

I'm going to try this patch, the only thing - it says to remove using System.Web.Hosting;
(but it looks like HostingEnvironment.RegisterVirtualPathProvider(embeddedProvider); in Global.asax.cs needs it)

In order to prevent duplicated suggestions please post all further questions about memory consumptions here