Memory Usage

I just wanted to make sure that the memory usage of my ESET Smart Security v. 3.0.669.0 is normal because it seems a bit high. On my Windows Vista Home Premium SP2, ekrn.exe takes up around 40MB and egui.exe uses 7MB.

Thanks for any responses.

 

That's normal, just the signature database itself takes about 20 MB.

 

Hmm, how disappointing. I expected it to be lower for a program that is known to be very light on resources.. I was using AVG previously and it seemed to take less resources. However, AVG was extremely slow with scanning my computer--I have yet to run a scan with this program, so perhaps that will change my perspective.

 

ekrn is using 22,984kb here, egui adds another 2,892kb, that's a total of about 26,000kb, not very much at all, especially considering the database takes around 20 MB as Marcos said

 

Hello,

That's so low! Currently, ekrn.exe on Windows XP is consuming about 45 MB of memory and egui.exe is taking up around 6 MB of memory on EAV v3.0.684.0 for a grand total of just over 51MB. (no scans running in the background or anything)

I notice that my Vista machine on 3.0.669.0 uses less. I'm not sure if this is because it's Vista, or because it's an older build, or maybe both. Speaking of older builds, weren't older builds (like my 3.0.669.0) supposed to be automatically updated to 3.0.684.0 a while ago?

What OS / version are you using?

Regards,

Mark.