[rosstafarian]

Mark Russinovitch did a great talk on how windows uses memory. I highly recommend checking it out if you're curious about this sort of thing

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/WCL... Mysteries of Memory Management Revealed,with Mark Russinovich (Part 1 of 2)

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/WCL... part 2