huge memory usage discrepancy between localhost and actual host

[eluser]John_Betong[/eluser]
 
This difference has always puzzled me as well. I have ensured that the Profiler is not in use on both localhost and the server.
 
Fortunately it is my locahost which uses more MBs.
 
 

Code:

// added following line to ./views/welcome_message.php
  // <p><br />Memory usage is {memory_usage}</p>

  // Results:

  // http://localhost/
  Memory usage is 1.32MB

  // Online
  Memory usage is 0.9MB