Personal Firewall and memory usage

[sukarof]

I usually dont care about memory usage since I have plenty of it.
I am testing Privatefirewall from privacyware and did notice that it takes over 200MB.
I just wonder if this is normal for this firewall?

[dmenace]

200 MB definetely sounds like to much.

Outpost, a fairly bloated firewall uses 70 MB shared by 2 processes on my machine.

There is probably a memory leak in the firewall. Only if this firewall is like a suite with lots of packages it might use more ram. But 200 MB is too much.

[sukarof]

Yeah.. it sounds to be too much. I have tried many firewalls and never seen any use that much. Privatefirewall has a quite detailed logging feature, I guess that could be a reason. I turned off the firewall and restarted it. In the beginning it was about 30MB but it slowly crawls up. It is 90MB after a couple of hours. I cant find anywhere to turn the logging off though.
Ah well I´ll contact support to see what they have to say about it.

[mercurie]

Any firewall that uses 200MB would not be on my PC. Outpost usage is about all I will tolerate. :ouch:

[sukarof]

I got a response from support, they said that it is not normal behavior for Privatefirewall.
They want to know more about my configuration so they can investigate why this happens.

[mercurie]

I am not familiar with this firewall, but at least it sounds like they care. :thumb:

[acr1965]

I believe the Webroot Desktop Firewall is an OEM if Private Firewall. And the WDF had (and may continue to have) a memory leak of some sorts. Maybe the reason is related?

[Mrkvonic]

Hello,
A security app that uses more than 25MB > /dev/null.
Mrk

[MaB69]

Hi,

According your screenshot sukarof, many process use more RAM than expected. May be you can use Process Explorer to have a second thought about PF RAM consumption ?

Regards,

MaB

[sukarof]

Processexplorer does show exactly the same amount of used memory.