MSASMain memory usage problem?

[Mikolaj]

Hello,

I have found the following situation with MSAS Beta 1, that repeats every
time I check.
Just after loading GIANTAntiSpywareMain.exe (shouldn't it be
MSAntiSpywareMain.exe? ) it consumes about 12,5MB of RAM. Without
starting any system scan and without running any function or tool, just
doing "walkthroug" through Options/Settings and Tools menu, just taking a
look at settings, agents and so on, all the time it increases memory usage
by this module. After several mouse clicks and few minutes of such actions,
from 12,5MB this application consumes over 29MB of RAM. And I stopped here
(without further investigation).
After closing the application and opening it once more, again it starts
with memory usage at level 12,5MB.

System:
Windows XP Home Edition Polish with SP2 and all latest updates, 1GB RAM

MSAS:
Microsoft AntiSpyware Version: 1.0.509
Spyware Definition Version: 5705 (2005-04-09 00:51:26)

(I can provide Task Manager screenshots with memory levels, if needed.)


The question is - is this some kind of problem/bug in the application?



Kind regards
Mikolaj Kaminski
MS-MVP, Poland

 

[Andre Da Costa]

Well, you should see mine, when loading it consumes 103 to 300Mbs of RAM.
When running it goes back down to 47MBs. I guess its obvious there is some
memory management issues going on. I just hope they resolve it by beta 2.

 

[Mikolaj]

Well, you should see mine, when loading it consumes 103 to 300Mbs of RAM.

When running it goes back down to 47MBs. I guess its obvious there is
some memory management issues going on. I just hope they resolve it by
beta 2.

Well, it just looks to me, that your problem is bigger than mine. Much
bigger.. ;-)
But being more serious - do you know if anyone did mentioned this memory
management issue before? Do they in the MSAS Team know about it?

Kind regards
Mikolaj Kaminski
MS-MVP, Poland

 

[Andre Da Costa]

I don't think so, but I notice another thing that can factor into the Memory
Usage issue, is actually spyware detected. I guess, when Spyware is found on
your system it does something to MSAS, because I have Spyware on a system
and it takes forever for MSAS to start up, at least 10 to 15 minutes to
start up.