Buggy and still searching

[lost_in_vegas]

Ok, over the last few weeks, I've noticed my spybot in the
task manager, take up anywhere from 30 to 80megs worth of
memory.

Would someone be able to tell me how to cut such memory
usage down?

 

[drragostea]

Depends on which portion of Spybot-Search&Destroy you're referring to. Spybot-SD the program itself, or Teatimer it's Resident Shield.

 

[lost_in_vegas]

its the tea timer

its the tea timer thats eating like 87megs worth of memory

how do i cut that down? or, why is it taking that much?
another computer I use, only uses like 37 megs worth of
memory.

 

[drragostea]

When the computer is running for a long time without a standby, reboot, or shutdown memory consumption of a (refers to any) can slightly increase.

It's taking that much because TeaTimer is a Resident Shield that actively protects you from malware. I would suggest you reboot and see how it goes. Usually TeaTimer will take up 35-50MB of RAM. Seeing that modern PCs built today have more RAM and resources, 80MB should be nothing.