High Memory Usage

[Weatherman97]

I know this question has been asked before, but I didn't see any promising answers when browsing through the topics.

Malwarebytes process, mbam.exe and other MBAM processes have been taking up a ridiculous amount of memory, competing with the host process for the top memory hog. MBAM uses sometimes as high as 80,000 K memory or more even when the computer is on idle or MBAM isn't updating.

I understand MBAM loads the definitions and information into memory, but are there plans in future versions to have a more cloud-integrated approach? I understand there will always be a need for signatures directly loaded onto computers that have no internet connection available due to an infection or whatever reason, but can MBAM be lightened up to have less of a system impact?

*The attached image was taken when the UI was not open, no scanning and no updating taking place.

[exile360]

mbam.exe is the process for the scanner, not the realtime protection module and it will use much more memory generally than the realtime protection module does.

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware's realtime protection currently consists of 2 processes:

• mbamservice.exe
  
• mbamgui.exe
  

That being said, we do plan to take a long look at our realtime protection to see what we can to to attempt to reduce the memory footprint used by it, as we would like to make it as light and efficient as possible, even though most systems have far more RAM than they used to.

[Weatherman97]

Thank you for answering my question.

[exile360]

You're welcome, if you need anything else, please don't hesitate to post.

Thanks