My project is a game engine, but I figured this question belongs here since it seems to be a general programming issue and could happen regardless of what I'm programming. That being said, when I first built and ran the program, it sucked up 50% CPU usage, and ~35mb of memory. Those numbers were fairly constant throughout numerous builds. My most recent build, I left the program run for about 15 minutes (I had to leave the computer) When I came back, CPU usage was at 5% and memory was ~6mb. Now, CPU usage is always below 6%, but the memory usage is always above 34mb. Does anyone know why all of the sudden without making any changes, it uses less CPU time?

At the least, add in the "Virtual Memory Size" column.

The data still isn't that useful (to a pathological degree @_@), but it is more useful.