Commit charge

[Julian Odell]

Whenever a spyware scan runs (I have it scan the whole
hard drive) the commit charge shown in Task Manager grows
enormously. Often by as much as 1.5Gb. This brings my
machine to its knees (it only has 1GB of RAM) as it pages
everything else out.
Why is this happening - surely this is a bug?
The strange thing is that looking in perfmon at the
GiantAntiSpyware process only shows <100Mb of private
pages and only a couple of 100Mb total virtual memory
usage so I have no idea what resources the process is
consuming - killing it immediately frees up the commit
charge and everything is back to normal.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

I believe you are seeing a known bug--but I can't explain exactly what the
resource usage involved is--and I haven't seen this problem myself--it may
happen only on some machines.

The way I understand the bug, it happens only when the main UI is open--i.e.
you shouldn't see it with scheduled scans.