hey guys,
im just wandering why avast 5 free is using sooo much system resources? its like 50 mb +
This in isolation is not enough to even make a suggestion.
Which of the avast processes (avastUI.exe, avastSvc.exe, the main scanning engine) or is this a combined total ?
Where are you getting this information ?
If using Task Manager which value are you using, the VM Size is meant to be a better value.
It also depends on what you are doing at the time, the more activity, the more memory used ?
I'm using around 30MB whilst browsing, see image. In the greater scheme of things, 50MB isn't much at all (especially for a security application) when I have "GB of RAM and that is what you have RAM for to be used. I have many programs/process that far exceed the two avast processes (see image2) and even that doesn't really concern me with 2GB of RAM.
As you will see from the two images these figures fluctuate, depending on what you are doing and what else is running.