This issue started to occur using the latest version of Avast Cleanup. Each Junk Scan Avast Cleanup Consumes more and more RAM and never reducing as can be seen in the video.
This image was taken 3 minutes after the Avast Cleanup software has been closed and still consuming the same amount of RAM.
Each junk scan that you make will just increase it more and more without reducing it after the scan finished or after closing the Avast Cleanup program.
First of all let me sincerely apologize for all troubles associated with usage of our product.
This is not intentional behavior.
Thank you for reporting this issue. We already discovered it as well during our internal testing and we are working on a fix which will be released in January 2022.
Until then we apologize for further complications while using our product.
I apologize for a longer “radio silence” however we have it fixed already and this update will go out most likely at the beginning of next week.
I will keep you updated here on the forum. If you check the main product board https://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=63.0 regularly you should see the new version on top when released.