# Images And Memory

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/images-and-memory/261979
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [June 2, 2008, 11:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/images-and-memory/261979 "2008-06-02T11:39:03Z")
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### Author: ![tstefan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@tstefan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tstefan)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2008, 11:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/images-and-memory/261979/1 "2008-06-02T11:39:03Z")

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Why one image which is 10 Kb takes a 94 Kb in memory when I load it with Loader class?  
In the Task manager the memory is even more, about 5 MB !!!  
For loading 100 10 Kb size images it takes 250 MB!!