You're right, I was looking at a test run with 250,000 blocks... duh.

A normal one shows 17MB memory usage and 10MB VM size.

mmalmi@cc.hut.fi wrote:
>> How much memory do you have to work with?
> The VPS has 320MB RAM, 50MB of which is currently free. There's also 
> 500MB swap space.
> 
>> Bitcoin necessarily takes a
>> fair bit of memory; about 75MB on Windows.  Is that a problem?
> 
> Sure about that? Windows task manager shows about 13MB memory usage here.
>