Bitdefender high RAM usage

smogsy · 24 Oct 2018 at 15:03

Hi all,

just looking through, look how much ram BItdefender is using Idle! Over 510MB Idle, if you then open the new UI 700MB!

as much as bitdefender is good i'm uninstalling this.

Glanza · 24 Oct 2018 at 15:05

Looking at what else is active i'd suspect it's either running a scan or installing a update.

smogsy · 24 Oct 2018 at 15:09

been watching it over a hour is always like that on new 2019 Bit defender

Glanza · 24 Oct 2018 at 15:38

Odd I've been using Bitdefender for nearly 90days on a trial and usage averages between 2-300mb.

smogsy · 24 Oct 2018 at 17:26

2019 version? i only recently got it 2018 was ok

Glanza · 24 Oct 2018 at 21:55

Yup when I got the trial they'd already pushed 2019 out, I only installed it to fix an issue with defender but it's worked well since. Monitored it tonight and I'm averaging between 200 and 350mb ram usage. That's whilst browsing or gaming.

jpaul · 24 Oct 2018 at 22:18

the memory from task manager is just the ram currently being used/working-set, and not the full vrirtual size, whcih is being taken from your paging file, and maybe much larger (process explorer shows them both)

Anyay do you find it drops back after a re-boot ? most of the shields are caching data about the files that have been accessed since the last re-boot, which have been 'checked-out' as clean, and the process size just builds up as you run things on your PC.

smogsy · 25 Oct 2018 at 19:47

jpaul said:
the memory from task manager is just the ram currently being used/working-set, and not the full vrirtual size, whcih is being taken from your paging file, and maybe much larger (process explorer shows them both)

Anyay do you find it drops back after a re-boot ? most of the shields are caching data about the files that have been accessed since the last re-boot, which have been 'checked-out' as clean, and the process size just builds up as you run things on your PC.

i only have web sheild on i turn rest of the other crap off (outlook scanning etc) yet they still run even though their turned off

Scott_DFT · 25 Oct 2018 at 22:33

From a fairly new Windows 10 home build here I'm showing currently 345,000K Working Set with 664,700K Private Reserved Total. Although earlier it was up at the 440,000K / 740,000K mark.
These sorts of things are why I guess 16Gb is the expected norm for a fluid Windows experience...
Are these figures found in other A-V software too?
It's good to see though that it's idle CPU usage is just 0.01% :cool:

Not so good is that I've just noticed that rainmeter is running a constant 4% of CPU, and that's of a 2700X

That'll be due to the system monitor gadgets continual refresh. Doesn't pause either when hidden behind a maximised window. May need to re-consider the desktop, looks cool but ... hmmm

smogsy · 10 Nov 2018 at 06:34

reinstalled it for testing, its up to 600MB...