Hi all
not sure if related to Avast or not–but here is the issue i’m having–after about 20-30 minutes from reboot, ram climbs to 64 percent
Here are 6,396K’s for AvastSvc.exe
AvastUI.exe 2,500K’s
is that normal? or is there a memory leak in this verson of antivirus
Gets extremelely laggy at times, especially when using Secondlife
64Mb is that much for you? How much RAM do you have?
I had a memory leak earlier today…with tens of small processes using an incredible amount of memory, many of them svchost, but not just that, small utilities using 240 MB …I had to reboot to stop that. All in all more than 50% (2200MB/4000) of my RAM was in use which is very unusual when just browsing. I have no idea if that was related to Avast…
ps: normal amount of RAM in use here is 1200-1300 MB
Have 4gbs of ram, really using in 32bit Vista around 3.75Gb’s though, as long as it doesn’t get extremely laggy again, and hardly can do anything–i think all is well, but just wanted to verify that nothing is really wrong i suppose. Previously was using Microsoft Security Essentials on here, but then decided easier for me to support if i just went back to Avast like rest of the PC’s in the house here
Removed MSE via the recommened method from the MSE forums, and all should be well
I didn’t have any problem running my system like that; the amount of RAM used was just not explained…
Eventually going to Windows 7 64bit Home Premium soon as i can afford it, meanwhile on 32bit Vista til then, never ordered the Vista 64bit Disc, so might as well not bother and get 7 When i can, and continue using Avast
For anyone having performance problems w/ Vista and above: please request and install the following hotfix, reboot and report back:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979223
The link to request the hotfix is right at the top of the article (next to the screwdriver and something icon).
(I mean real performance problems. If you are just obsessed with watching task manager and want free RAM for the sake of having free RAM, don’t bother installing the hotfix. RAM is there to be used and empty RAM is useless, just shouldn’t leak :P)
as said, no performance issues here (i.e. with the amount of RAM I got, there was no impact), just some unexplained RAM in use, like Keepass using suddenly 250MB, other small utilities doing the same, didn’t happen again after a reboot.
Thanks for the link about the hotfix, confirming there may be a memory issue with third party security software drivers calling WFP. I don’t think there’s such an issue here on my system so I’ll skip the fix for now. I guess it will be included in Win Updates next week…
On a side note, referring to your comment about RAM use, I sometimes wish Windows would be able to use RAM as well as Linux does…doesn’t make the apps launch or run better but that avoids most of the swapping to hard disk that we know in Windows. This said things have improved since Vista, not on par with Linux yet but much better than XP. XP (at least until SP2, last version I’ve used) RAM management was a disaster.
I very much doubt it will be included in WSUS/automatic updates anytime soon. It’s been available for ~2 months and ESET has been working w/ MS on this fix for another couple of months before it’s been even published.
yeah okay I read April 14th and we’re in May ;D