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NoelC

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Re: High Memory use Avast service 104 MB
« Reply #30 on: December 29, 2013, 05:14:07 PM »
Folks, at this point we have no official indication that I know of that the RAM it's using is anything out of the ordinary.

Perhaps it's meant to use a lot of RAM in order to speed up its function.  I for one would definitely want faster AV operation vs. lower memory use.

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Re: High Memory use Avast service 104 MB
« Reply #31 on: December 29, 2013, 10:47:41 PM »
After the last Vps update my memory usage of Avast is lower , it is now about 30 to 40 mb at this moment.
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Re: High Memory use Avast service 104 MB
« Reply #32 on: December 30, 2013, 03:00:14 PM »
It is growing again , it is now at this moment at 100 MB and still growing , and also there is NO HELP from sombody of AVAST!!!
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Re: High Memory use Avast service 104 MB
« Reply #33 on: December 30, 2013, 03:09:26 PM »
After the last Vps update my memory usage of Avast is lower , it is now about 30 to 40 mb at this moment.

always after receiving a vps, the used memory is reduced.Then continues to grow until it receives a new vps 

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Re: High Memory use Avast service 104 MB
« Reply #34 on: December 30, 2013, 03:30:38 PM »
After the last Vps update my memory usage of Avast is lower , it is now about 30 to 40 mb at this moment.

always after receiving a vps, the used memory is reduced.Then continues to grow until it receives a new vps

This would seem to indicate that the streaming updates are at least partially retained in memory.  Since the previous streaming updates are incorporated into the new vps (which is optimized), the memory is freed up.  That said, I'm not seeing the large increase in memory usage.
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Re: High Memory use Avast service 104 MB
« Reply #35 on: December 30, 2013, 03:41:35 PM »
This would seem to indicate that the streaming updates are at least partially retained in memory.  Since the previous streaming updates are incorporated into the new vps (which is optimized), the memory is freed up.  That said, I'm not seeing the large increase in memory usage.

Perhaps someone whom has this high mem usage can you turn off streaming updates and see if there is an effect ?
They may have to wait until a new VPS to "clear reduce" then see.  However, if they turn of streaming they could manually try a update after few hours and get a new VPS.  If this truly is the issue it would seem the streamed updates would be applied then cleared in memory.

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Re: High Memory use Avast service 104 MB
« Reply #36 on: December 30, 2013, 03:55:20 PM »
In retrospect, the total of streaming updates in terms of kilobytes is quite small.  There has to be more than just the streaming updates causing the memory increase.
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Re: High Memory use Avast service 104 MB
« Reply #37 on: December 30, 2013, 08:03:36 PM »
Considering the change log entries, there are several suspects (posted on Filehorse.com)...



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