Installer Beware- WSS 3.0 and Office 2007 are Memory Pigs

I recently installed Office 2007 and upgraded to Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 at the advice of a friend. Don't worry Siva I won't mention your name.

Yesterday I shut down all the WSS services, all the app pools associated with it, and the Embedded SQL Database running to support WSS 3.0.

The Office 2007 install requires a new windows search module to be downloaded and installed that has a friendly message every time you hover over it that says it will throttle down when you are using your computer. Exiting and shutting down the service was about the only thing that slowed it down on my box.

I have 2 Gig of Ram and WSS 3.0 chews up every bit of it and was bringing my box to a screeching halt.

I will admit it has some great features and using the SharePoint Designer 2007 is a great experience. Just don't expect to be doing anything else on your box if you are designing WSS 3.0 sites. WSS 2.0 was no where close to being the memory hog WSS 3.0 is.