How much should Avast take in task manager?
ePlay.
It depends how active is AvastSvc.exe, sorry I ment you. AvastSvc.exe will scan whatever you are doing in the comp so it will need more the more you do. Right now mine is drawing about 16 KB. The other would be AvastUi.exe. It will draw +/- 7 KB. That is memory. About CPU well if it is scanning, in my comp, it takes around 30 %.
Hope it helps.
mine does that to, but it take sometime 30kb and im doing nothing.
Sometimes 30KB are you sure, I don’t know any program that uses only 30KB, 30MB perhaps ?
We are going to need more information to be able to even hazard a guess; CPU, RAM, other security software, etc. ?
You now have over 20 posts so you could use the forum profile, signature for a brief description of your system spec and security programs.
Which memory column are you referring to, see image example of mine in XP Pro SP3 whilst just browsing/posting on this topic.
What exactly does this doing nothing entail, surely you aren’t just sat there watching the task manager (no p2p in the background, etc.) ?
Windows XP Home SP3
Intel Pentium 4 3.00 Ghz
Nvidea Geforce FX 5200
2 GB Ram
Dell Dimension 8300 Series
Hi ePlay.
Sorry about that. I should have written 7000KB (7MB) and 16000KB (16MB).
30 MB is not that much. Avast is drawing +/- 24 MB right now.
On my machine as I type this, AIS is using 3 processes (firewall and 2 AV processes), I also have Chrome sandboxed and the total for all 3 processes is 9,700K, with very little I/0.
What are you trying to ask? Windows uses a memory manager to assign memory to programs as they need it for efficient operation, and they return it when they no longer need it. The programs themselves use memory to avoid paging/shuttling in and out and this makes them run more quickly and efficiently. Time and space is still a tradeoff. So depending on what activity is occurring or being anticipated, Avast! memory will move up and down fairly quickly. My current is attached, but a minute ago usage was below 5000K.
BTW, I am using w7x64 and have 4GB of memory (cheap laptop). Currently using about 50% with 81 processes. If any of the processes will run a lot faster by taking another GB of memory at times, good for them. Usually called statistical multiplexing. If you are running W95 with 128M of memory (or DOS with 64K 
), that is a different problem than modern computer systems.