After about an hour of operation, Avast will start sucking up as much RAM as it can get away with and get stuck on 25% CPU (4 cores, 100% CPU on one core), and then just sit there eating my RAM and not releasing any. Only way that seems to fix this is to restart the computer. I have run virus scans with MalwareBytes and Avast just in case, they are clean. This began two days ago, and I have not installed any new hardware or software that would have changed something like drivers or system files. This greatly irritates me because, obviously, I cannot just kill the process. If this issue doesn’t get resolved soon, then I will have to move to a different Antivirus, except I love Avast, so I’d really prefer for this issue to get fixed…
Do you normally have seven browsers open at the same time? I don’t use Chrome so I’m not sure if the task manager is showing seven separate instances of chrome, or seven tabs. That is possibly the cause of such high memory usage by Avast. To my knowledge, your problem isn’t common among most users. Maybe one of the gurus here will be able to say for sure.
Chrome’s known to do that, I highly doubt he has 7 instances of Chrome running. I have 3 chrome.exe processes running and I only have one chrome tab open.
That aside, Avast! is using quite a bit of memory, mine’s only using 31 MB after 1 day. I can see you’re running a 64-Bit OS, are you using the latest build and the 64-Bit version?
It is natural for Chrome to open a new process for every new website
Suppose he is visiting 7 websites then he may see 7 Google Chrome processes
This is normal
Google Chrome has a multi-process architecture, meaning tabs can run in separate processes from each other, and from the main browser process. New tabs spawned from a web page, however, are usually opened in the same process, so that the original page can access the new tab using JavaScript.
Chrome does the multi-process thing so that if the page you’re browsing crashes, then Chrome stays open, and you can just reload the page. Chrome does the same thing for any extensions installed for the same reason. A friend of mine informed me that the Avast issue I am experiencing may be due to its updater. I’ll try switching it to manual (Fixed it for him) and come back with any results.
…There is ONE chrome browser. ONE is open. The processes are various web pages and stuff. But no, it just happens spontaneously. It’s ridiculous annoying. Doesn’t matter if I’m editing video or playing games.
