On Access Scanning Memory Hog

[jmckee]

Mine is still running at 140megs to 160 megs. It was at slightly over half that about a month ago. However , the CPU for it is rarely more than a few percent.

Message by: jmckee on 3/23/14 8:05:45 PM EDT

[Hayton]

mcshield.exe, the on-access scanner, is not a lightweight application. It does take up a fair bit of memory.

However, there are two kinds of memory (resident and virtual) and most posts do not distinguish between them.

From Process Explorer I can see that on my XP machine the usage splits 40:60 - 97Mb resident memory to 159Mb virtual (disk) memory. As more of the application is temporarily on disk, of course it requires a lot of disk access. Page fault readings are generally very high.

Total memory usage has usually been about 250Mb, but the memory split used to be 60:40.

Edit : I forgot the screenshot

Message was edited by: Hayton on 24/03/14 02:03:27 GMT

[jmckee]

As can be seen from the screen shot , mine is using a bit more (163mb to 145mb).

[Hayton]

Hmm. In some ways not so different, but on yours I see 50Mb more in physical memory and a whole lot less being read from disk. And far fewer page faults too. I don't think mcshield is going to come in much below my total of c.250Mb on any machine. It is not, as I said, lightweight.

[jmckee]

Actually , just over a month ago , I was seeing closer to 60-70mb virtual memory. Never checked to see what it was using in physical memory.

[tang1992]

Mine as well. Now it is constantly above 250k

[mrcoyote]

I have windows 7 and having issues with the memory use of mcshield causing me to shut down.  My usage increases over time starting around 200 and increaseing to around 500 before my computer locks up.

[exbrit]

mrcoyote wrote:
I have windows 7 and having issues with the memory use of mcshield causing me to shut down.  My usage increases over time starting around 200 and increaseing to around 500 before my computer locks up.

You have your own thread here:  https://community.mcafee.com/thread/66680?tstart=0

For reference only.