Personal Firewall and memory usage

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  1. sukarof

    sukarof Registered Member

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    PrivateFirewall and memory usage

    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?
     

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  2. dmenace

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    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.
     
  3. sukarof

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    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.
     
  4. mercurie

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

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    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.
     
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    mercurie A Friendly Creature

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    I am not familiar with this firewall, but at least it sounds like they care. :thumb:
     
  7. acr1965

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    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?
     
  8. Mrkvonic

    Mrkvonic Linux Systems Expert

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    Hello,
    A security app that uses more than 25MB > /dev/null.
    Mrk
     
  9. MaB69

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    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
     
  10. sukarof

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    Processexplorer does show exactly the same amount of used memory.
     
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