Dock using 330MB of Memory?

[u2333]

Long-time reader first time poster.

Recently I discovered my 2007 MacBook running pretty slow.

I checked out the Activity Monitor and discovered that "Dock" is using 330MB of "real" and "virtual" memory!

this seems outrageous.
I have repaired disk permissions, reset my PRAM, and reinstalled snow leopard, tried quitting the process, everything I can think of, but it always jumps back up to over 300 MB of memory usage

any idea what is going on?

 

[iLog.Genius]

Could you post a screenshot of your dock and then post it here? Increased memory of Dock/Finder could result from different things. Do you have Stacks in your dock? How many? What do they contain?

You can also try going to ~/Library/Preferences and trash the com.apple.finder.plist and restart your computer to see if that helps.

 

[u2333]

here is the screenshot of my dock

only stacks are the applications folder and my safari downloads
they both don't contain anything out of the ordinary, downloads just has a couple documents: pdfs jpegs, etc.

also finder is running around 37MB consistently, seems normal
but dock is out of control at 337MB

thanks for any advice!