Image capture takes 6GB of my 8 GB RAM

I have seen inquiries with similar scenarios but none of them described what I see on my iMac (8 GB, 10.6.8). All of a sudden the machine acts like it was stuck in mud: eeevvveeerrr sooo sllloooowwww
It takes ages until I get the activity monitor on screen and another ages until I can mark the culprit and force quit it. After that things go back to normal.
Can anyone think of a reason? I did a couple of scans with Apple's application "Digitale Bilder" (in german, it should be Image Capture in english) before. When the spooky memory hog showed up I deleted the app, but the effect does not stop. The drama presents itself also with every reboot, so I rather try to avoid that until I have a fail safe method to solve the problem.
I may try to use the combo update of 10.6.8. Sometimes this can help. Any other bright ideas?
Thanks for taking a look at this.

ScienceD wrote:
As I thought. With 1 stick in bottom slot (top slot still not working at all, system didn't start with only 1 stick in it) hardware reserved memory is only 262 Mb, it's totally normal amount, i think (maybe integrated videochip using it).
So, now we see, that top slot didn't work at all, BUT Windows still see it, and marking as "Hardware Reserved"... Damit mistery
Looks like a BIOS bug. Have you tried a hard reset??
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