fscxfenced - DeepGuard's background process eating too much RAM

66f2e490

Good day,

noticed that after upgrading to SAFE 18.4, when the uptime of the computer is more than one day, fscxfenced uses about 1GB of memory.

Is this a normal memory usage or a memory leak? Thanks in advance.

Apple M1, macOS 13.0.1 (22A400), F-Secure SAFE 18.4 (47125)

Firmy

Hi @66f2e490 @bobbyw

Thank you for your post.

We are aware of this issue. The issue is fixed in the new version 19.0.

Kindly update to the latest version.

Thank you and stay safe.

bobbyw

My Mac just updated to 18.4 last night. I noticed today fscxfenced is using 9.65 GB of ram.

2019 Mac Pro, MacOS Ventura 13.0.1, F-Secure SAFE 18.4 (47125)

bobbyw

https://community.f-secure.com/en/discussion/comment/131155#Comment_131155

fscxfenced regularly consumes 8+ gigs of memory on my Mac. I have to force quit it at least every other day. One time I caught it consuming 18 gigs of RAM after forgetting to kill it for a week.

I hope F-Secure is making this fix a priority. This is a huge memory leak.

As a note, I have both Intel and M1 Macs. This only appears to be a problem on my Intel Mac.

ArthurVal

Hey, @bobbyw!

Thanks for the report. The root cause of this behaviour has been identified and addressed in our internal development time product versions. The fix will be included in the upcoming 19.0 release in February.

LordStrongback

I am on version 22.4, and still having this issue... problem has been going on for some time now...

ArthurVal

Hi, @LordStrongback

Are you using a corporate/enterprise product?

The fix for the issue has been deployed to Total product with version 19.0.

22.4 sounds like version of a corporate product which WithSecure is responsible for nowadays.

I would suggest reporting such issues on the corresponding Community site https://community.withsecure.com/