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Memory Leak on 10.8.1

theanimaster

Using version 8.0.6C on mac os 10.8.1 and it just CHEWS AWAY at the memory!! I have 16GB of RAM and I quit all my apps except for Sophos. I took a screen recording as well which shows how a full computer scan just keeps chewing up the RAM and when stopped the RAM isn't released (still shows up as INACTIVE). 

Horrible stuff. The shocking part was the first time I opened up ACtivity Monitor (after realising something was wrong as the computer slowed down to a crawl) -- NO RAM LEFT!!

Anybody else seeing this HUGE leak?

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    Hi,

    I faced the same problem as well. I got MacBook Pro mid-2012 running 10.8.1 and I upgraded memory to 16GB. 

    My MBP was significantly slow down and I noticed that soon after I installed Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition.

    Here my finding if I boot up my MBP for the fresh reboot, memory leak won't be observed. Once I put my MBP in sleep,

    and then wake it up I will see that suddenly free memory nearly 14GB before getting sleep left only 4.xx GB

    righ after waking my MBP up. Then I can see memory leak continuing. Free memory was continuously decreasing until less than 10MB.

    I could see exactly the same as you that the portion of inactive memory substantially increasing. 

    I also found that MBP took time to get sleep and to wake up noticeably longer time than usual. 

    For this reason, I uninstalled Sophos and then my MBP is now running as fast as it was before. 

    I did test to take my MBP sleep and wake it up. Memory leak was gone. It took much quicker to get sleep and wake up.

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    Hi,

    do have ClamXav installed before you had SAV installed?

    Than uninstall ClamXav with the Engine uninstaller.

    And load SAV again to install SAV.

    I had also installed ClamXav with the Engine but i didnt use Sentry.

    The Engine from ClamXAV cant work with SAV on the same 

    Machine, you must complete uninstall ClamXav.

    When both are on the Machine grow the Interprocess to 50 %

    and higher.

    If you want use ClamXav take it from the AppStore.

    To Scan your Mail Accounts.

    All the Best

    carlos

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