Behavior of the new Live Suite

I've noticed on several occasions that the new Live Suite will consume just about all the RAM it can. And that applies to Messenger, Mesh, and Writer. All three that I installed. About an hour ago I had to kill Messenger through the task manager because it had a hold on about 4GB's of RAM. 4GB's! For Messenger!!! What's the problem here? I've looked at the registry entries for the new suite, and nothing looks out of place. I have no conflicting programs or services, and the suite has been fully updated. Is anyone else seeing this?

 

Four gigabytes sounds like a serious memory leak. I've also recently started MSN included with the new Live Suite and I found it more bloated than ever. God knows what the hell the developers at Microsoft were thinking. Honestly, I would just try installing an older version at this point. Why deal with the aggravation of what MS does best?

 

Thank you! I was really hoping I wasn't the only one. And yes, the Live Suite is bloated big time. The memory leak is mainly with Messenger, with Mesh coming in a close 2nd. Mesh has locked up to 2GB away so far. These seem like issues that should have NEVER happened in a shipping version. Looks like I need to find a Messenger alternative. What alternative to Mesh is there?

 

As far as I know, there's only the option of using older versions of Live. However, for now I am just using Mesh, so I don't need MSN or Mail.

 

I am not using MSN, (I use Trillian 5 - free, no ads, better Win7 integration than MSN itself), and Live Photo Gallery, Live Movie Maker, and Live Mesh doesn't cause any memory leak.