WindowServer process taking up almost 7GB

I have a process named WindowServer running as User _windowserver. It is currently using 6.94GB of memory. I've never seen this process before. I'm on a new Mac Mini. Any idea why this process has such a huge amount of memory? Should I kill it?

Killing it is not a good idea. It's an essential part of OS X.
Are you running any Finder plugins or other sorts of "haxies" or system enhancements? Menumeters or iStat Menus? I've seen them cause excess memory usage all over the place.

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Sandeep,
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    4 GB RAM
Video Information:
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System Software:
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Disk Information:
    ST3500418AS disk0 : (465,76 GB)
        (null) (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 200 MB
        Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 418,29 GB (219,13 GB free)
        BOOTCAMP (disk0s3) /Volumes/BOOTCAMP: 47,28 GB (16,88 GB free)
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Thunderbolt Information:
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    66 MB    WindowServer
    53 MB    Finder
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    2.65 GB    Active RAM
    44 MB    Inactive RAM
    686 MB    Wired RAM
    205 MB    Page-ins
    1.34 GB    Page-outs
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