I have to wonder if telling a questioner flatly that task manager has been put down many times on this board and leaving it at that has any value whatsoever as a response. Might have well said nothing and not wasted the time of any of us reading.

Leekb … I see that in my task manager the ‘reported’ memory usage of ashServ.exe is slightly higher than yours and the priority is also ‘high’. So I assume that is not abnormal for Avast!

Perhaps we can both get a more informative answer to your questions.