memory usage / leak?

Avast Mac Security
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I’m running 7.0 (36454) on Lion 10.7.3 and the memory usage is crippling my machine. I have 4GB physical RAM and am down to about 20-40 MB free.

top -o rsize shows avast being the main memory hog:

PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #WQ #POR #MREG RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VPRVT VSIZE PGRP PPID STATE UID FAULTS COW MSGSENT MSGRECV SYSBSD SYSMACH CSW PAGEINS KPRVT KSHRD USER
239- com.avast.MacAva 0.0 11:42.83 9 0 25 1221 2221M 1920K 1718M 3462M 4093M 109 109 sleeping 0 5858286 402 5502 2203 2274429+ 339534 752167+ 993559 10M- 21M root

ps -ef | grep 239 shows:

0 239 109 0 5:37pm ?? 11:42.63 /Library/Application Support/Avast/files/vps/com.avast.MacAvast.MAD

Is this a bug/issue?

2

Hello,

You are not alone in this, see this thread:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=96807.0

3

Thanks. I did see this before I posted, but I thought it was different as I hadn’t run a scan. The high memory usage for me is just having it running i.e. the shields.

Hopefully it will get addressed in subsequent releases.