MATLAB Consumes my PC Memory

I discovered that when my MATLAB R2011b is just opened (not running any code yet), it uses atleast 210,000K of memory. While running it uses about 350000K to 750000K. However, after it has stopped runing, the memory usage continues to increase. Kindly help

[Robert Cumming]

are you using pure matlab code or any mex/dll?

what toolboxes do you use?

Answer 1

[Jan]

Win7/64, 2011b/64, DSP-Toolbox, PCT, SPT:

When I run some larger programs the initial memory consumption of 210MB grows to 250MB - after clearing all large results, of course.

What does this tell you:

inmem
whos
feature('memstats')

[Ezekiel Agunlejika]

I don't really understand. The memory usage increases to about 1.15GB and causes my system to hang. I use Windows XP with 3GHz processor and 3GB of RAM. What have I got wrong? Pls help