Before you give advice or offer an opinion, please get your facts straight.
The memory (resources) used in comparison to the total amount of memory (resources) available isn’t high at all.
The browser is using much more ram as David pointed out.
I suggest you stick with the ESET forum you seem to be a fan of that product.
I only praise products that make a difference. Eset is known as the lightest antivirus.
I wonder why?
Now you are a fan of Avast… lol
Considering that Avast has kept my systems safe since 2003, you may be correct.
Same here, since 2009, at least.
Good computing practices are at least 50% of protection, tho. In other words, user also protects by surfing wisely, researches all programs before downloading, maintains programs up-to-date, etc.,.
Antivirus cannot protect 100%. Malwarebytes protects sections antiviruses don’t, mostly PUP’s some trojans.
[EDIT:] [Strikethrough made per a response by Nunzio77 did not show after posting]@ Nunzio77: It wasn’t Avast that blundered, it was a company Jumpshot which Avast bought and then after the fact news media discovered what Jumpshot was doing. You are right they should not have been doing that, but Avast was not directly responsible for their behavior.
This is like someone saying “Hey, I Paid more money than you for the exact same product” and then you say “Yeah, but it’s only a small percentage of your overall bank account balance, so who cares?”
Like, yeah, that might be true, but there’s still something to be said about why the raw amount was higher for one person than for others. I understand fluctuations, but OP’s RAM usage is significantly higher by quite a few degrees of magnitude.
No it isn’t, comparing apples against oranges, you aren’t paying for what ram usage, that is entirely down to computer setup and usage and that is likely to differ from one person to another (as we have seen in this topic).
So 204MB Vs say my 86MB, both are infinitesimal Vs installed RAM - of all of the installed running processes in the OPs system only add up to10% of installed RAM, what does 204MB represent against the 10% of total RAM used.
This is bloody crazy, you will give yourself an ulcer worrying about things like this.
If your worried about RAM usage don’t switch your PC on, RAM is there to be used this figure of 204MB being considered excessive is ridiculous
Again, facts count. Without knowing exactly what the AV is doing at the time this reading was obtained, there is no way to know if the usage is high low or on par. You also need to realize that anything you do on your system is checked by your AV so it’s always going to require resources.