
the total system memory use is 83% now up from the previous 59%. It has now been 30 minutes since the copy operation completed and Bitdefender process is still holding at 8.8 GB in use and Window available memory is still at 4 GB free (and note while the process use is 8.8 GB, less than the 10.4 GB in the previous pic. So there is definitely some kind of memory/resource leak in that the process seems to eventually show the memory no longer in use but it doesn't appear to be being made available again in the Windows total memory pool. total Windows system memory in use had hit 19.9 GB with only 4 GB free, so this 8.8 plus the previous 10.4 GB in still holding and not being released. Not only that, but on the performance tab. As the copy was taking place, Bitdefender memory utilization started climbing to about 1.8 GB in use (as the first of the four files was finishing copying), to ~3 GB in use (as the second file was finishing copying) and after all four had finished copying. mkv video files (total of ~16 GB) on the network share (secondary Win10 PC) and did a drag'n'drop copy of them to my primary PC local drive (that I just created the exclusion on). Went into Windows Explorer, highlighted (4) of the 4 GB. but overall system memory did not come back.Īs another test, I went into Bitdefender Shield and added an exclusion for a local folder on my primary PC. It took 30 minutes for the Bitdefender process in Task Manager process list to show it dropping down to ~100 MB in use. but that doesn't appear to be the case as I just tried copying some files from the network and Bitdefender used 10.4 GB of memory while that completed. I thought that maybe it was something with video editing toolset I was using that I upgraded a week or two ago.

I just had my PC lockup due to memory exhaustion this morning, had similar experiences over the last 2 days but only now have isolated it as Bitdefender doing it.

I work with large video files, editing and moving them around my local network. Upon reviewing the system logs, memory is being exhausted and Windows is reporting out of memory and resource exhausted msgs all on the VSSERV.EXE process (Bitdefender Antivirus Shield). The PC starts freezing and going unresponsive requiring a hard reset. I am seeing an excessive memory utilization that is exhausting all memory on my PC.
