I suggest you keep TeaTimer. It saved me once from a BHO, which was trojan!
The way it works -taking snapshots to compare previous with current state- makes it reliable.
I also like it being shown in Windows Security Center
TeaTimer - Memory Usage
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The way it works -taking snapshots to compare previous with current state- makes it reliable.
I also like it being shown in Windows Security Center
I have an older machine with 512MB RAM and while I like TeaTimer's protection, it's a bit of a hog at 34MB. Since I ditched Norton and switched to NOD32, with TeaTimer running I have even less Ram than I used to when I had Norton.
Is there any way of optimising this, or do I have to make a difficult decision and switch off TeaTimer and just rely on NOD32?
Is there any way of optimising this, or do I have to make a difficult decision and switch off TeaTimer and just rely on NOD32?
md usa spybot fan
Spybot Advisor Team [Retired]
matthill:
I only have 512 MB of RAM but 169 MB of physical memory (RAM) is available right now with a ton of stuff running including TeaTimer at 31,844K. But that is what Virtual Memory is all about. What isn't currently being used is paged out.
From last week, TeaTimer was running around 49-50MB of memory when I first installed. I denied ctfmon.exe from starting every time, because it was annoying and it took up memory. I disabled it manually by disabling the advanced language "output" (Regional settings). The process just had to annoy me every time I open IE, wordpad, etc.
To the point. After today's update TeaTimer runs fine at 35MB. Last week it was 50Mb... rivaling Firefox 2.
I would suggest TeaTimer because it acts as a secondary Resident Shield next to your primary AV Shield. It saved many others from a trojan. :laugh:
To the point. After today's update TeaTimer runs fine at 35MB. Last week it was 50Mb... rivaling Firefox 2.
I would suggest TeaTimer because it acts as a secondary Resident Shield next to your primary AV Shield. It saved many others from a trojan. :laugh:I understand, but virtual memory is not as useful as true RAM for intensive applications like Photoshop -- paging massively slows things down. This is why I'm trying to minimise RAM usage of other programs. TeaTimer's memory usage does seem rather high for what seems to be a rather simple application.
PauleyHoyt
New member
Tea TImer cpu usage at 70-80%
For ur info. my xp, sp2, 2.? ghz using tea 1.5.2 was using the 70-80% and 55mb of mem. I followed suggestion to right click settings, and deleted estimated 12-15 blocked and allowed (total both) and this reduced to 2-5% and some 35mb memory.
So far, so good.
Thanks for ur posts.
Pauley:crowned:
For ur info. my xp, sp2, 2.? ghz using tea 1.5.2 was using the 70-80% and 55mb of mem. I followed suggestion to right click settings, and deleted estimated 12-15 blocked and allowed (total both) and this reduced to 2-5% and some 35mb memory.
So far, so good.
Thanks for ur posts.
Pauley:crowned:
Bringing up an old issue maybe.
However since I posted here once I'll post again.
Had to reformat and reinstall windows XP up to service pack 2.
Got the newest spybot (1.6) tea timer was running as usual to a point.
Upon installing World of Warcraft, and running the update patches, teatimer has freaked out on me. I double click the patch.exe and everything comes to a stand still. When task manager finally opens, I see teatimer at 99 cpu and eating up memory like it's out of style.. Killed the process twice now, first was 530,000k memory, rebooted and tried patching again. This time it was up to 750,000k of memory.
Now that is definitely a problem. After WoW is up to date I'll try uninstalling spybot and reinstalling, see if it happens again.
Still a basic setup, have SpyWare Blaster and Zone Alarm 7.0.4. Not much else is installed yet.
However since I posted here once I'll post again.
Had to reformat and reinstall windows XP up to service pack 2.
Got the newest spybot (1.6) tea timer was running as usual to a point.
Upon installing World of Warcraft, and running the update patches, teatimer has freaked out on me. I double click the patch.exe and everything comes to a stand still. When task manager finally opens, I see teatimer at 99 cpu and eating up memory like it's out of style.. Killed the process twice now, first was 530,000k memory, rebooted and tried patching again. This time it was up to 750,000k of memory.
Now that is definitely a problem. After WoW is up to date I'll try uninstalling spybot and reinstalling, see if it happens again.
Still a basic setup, have SpyWare Blaster and Zone Alarm 7.0.4. Not much else is installed yet.
SuperD38,
You have tacked onto the end of a relatively old thread. There has been a beta release of a new version of Teatimer for Spybot 1.6 that may help you, however as with all beta releases, using it is at your own risk. I have had it running on 3 XP machines without any problems for some time now, as have others.
The best approach is to read right through the thread at http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=30994 so you are fully aware of some of the issues. The link to the beta version of teatimer is in the post
http://forums.spybot.info/showpost.php?p=214438&postcount=21
Teatime is actually offering a large amount of real time protection, and it will use up resources to do so (there is no such thing as a free dinner). On modern fast platforms with lots of memory its protection far outweighs the small impact on performance. On older, slow and perhaps memory starved platforms (by todays standards) its impact on performance may preclude it being used.
You have tacked onto the end of a relatively old thread. There has been a beta release of a new version of Teatimer for Spybot 1.6 that may help you, however as with all beta releases, using it is at your own risk. I have had it running on 3 XP machines without any problems for some time now, as have others.
The best approach is to read right through the thread at http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=30994 so you are fully aware of some of the issues. The link to the beta version of teatimer is in the post
http://forums.spybot.info/showpost.php?p=214438&postcount=21
Teatime is actually offering a large amount of real time protection, and it will use up resources to do so (there is no such thing as a free dinner). On modern fast platforms with lots of memory its protection far outweighs the small impact on performance. On older, slow and perhaps memory starved platforms (by todays standards) its impact on performance may preclude it being used.
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Oh I very much like having teatimer running, just not having it eat up almost all of my system memory.
1gig total and its taking 750mb?.. Very wrong.
Maybe it just freaked out with those patches, haven't had time to reinstall SpyBot yet. I'll have a read of those posts and maybe try the beta.
First post is about usage at start up, my issue is after running for a while and trying to patch a game.
Still more to read though.
1gig total and its taking 750mb?.. Very wrong.
Maybe it just freaked out with those patches, haven't had time to reinstall SpyBot yet. I'll have a read of those posts and maybe try the beta.
First post is about usage at start up, my issue is after running for a while and trying to patch a game.
Still more to read though.
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batkinson001
New member
Hey all,
40MB ram usage would be more understandable than my current 128MB usage...
seems when i got my vista laptop a couple of years back, Teatimer decided to take a bigger slice of the pie that is my system's ram. this is unacceptable.
why the hell does it need over 100 megabytes of memory?!
seriously spybot guys, you need to better optimize how this thing requires and uses ram...
other than that, spybot is excellent.
After noticing this thread and reading its posts, I was curious what would be my case...
... just 123MB ram for teatimer :santa: running on XP home edition SP3.
No comment. I believe if this figure can be lowered, this problem will, sooner or later, be solved for sure.
Kerim
Same here... am using an old PC... PIII 996MHz, WinXP Pro SP3, 384MB RAM... and imagine Teatimer occupying 106MB... arghhh!!!
Have you restarted your PC?
Excessive memory usage with TeaTimer
I'm new to this forum. I've been noticing that TeaTimer is taking alot of memory in Task Manager. Most of the time it takes about 123 M Conventional Memory and 122 M VM and peak memory usage was over 306 M!! What is causing this major memory usage? I just restated my computer about 10 min ago. I've used Spybot for many years and I have never had a problem with it using so much memory until just recently. Seems there are quite a few people that are having the same problem.
I am running XP sp3 Media Center Edition 2003 with 1G onboard memory.
I'm new to this forum. I've been noticing that TeaTimer is taking alot of memory in Task Manager. Most of the time it takes about 123 M Conventional Memory and 122 M VM and peak memory usage was over 306 M!! What is causing this major memory usage? I just restated my computer about 10 min ago. I've used Spybot for many years and I have never had a problem with it using so much memory until just recently. Seems there are quite a few people that are having the same problem.
I am running XP sp3 Media Center Edition 2003 with 1G onboard memory.
Draken_korin
New member
Memory usage
Right now, on my computer running windows 7 ultimate 64 bit, tea tree timer is using 89 MB this is currently the highest memory usage of all the processess running on my comp even beating firefox with 3 tabs open at 86 MB. My avira antivirus only uses 1.4 MB while idle and lavasoft ad aware is only using 1.5 MB. My system does have 4 GB of ram so I think tea timer is just taking greedily as it feels the need to. I guess that is better than using page file cause at least its cpu usage is down at between 1-2 % but it does use a bit more during start up. Thinking of disabeling it or going for syp terminator also free app with active guard.
I'm kinda surprised that lavasoft ad-aware is only using 1.5 MB considering it was a relatively massive 126 MB download compared to 16 MB for spybot + 8 MB for updates
Right now, on my computer running windows 7 ultimate 64 bit, tea tree timer is using 89 MB this is currently the highest memory usage of all the processess running on my comp even beating firefox with 3 tabs open at 86 MB. My avira antivirus only uses 1.4 MB while idle and lavasoft ad aware is only using 1.5 MB. My system does have 4 GB of ram so I think tea timer is just taking greedily as it feels the need to. I guess that is better than using page file cause at least its cpu usage is down at between 1-2 % but it does use a bit more during start up. Thinking of disabeling it or going for syp terminator also free app with active guard.
I'm kinda surprised that lavasoft ad-aware is only using 1.5 MB considering it was a relatively massive 126 MB download compared to 16 MB for spybot + 8 MB for updates