I appreciate the well written healthy response. More than I was expecing. Thank you for that. 
Far as the issue at hand if the PageFile leak really is only affective WinXP 32-Bit than it probably won't ever get fixed. And I don't blame AVG for it. I can only imagine the lean scrummy scrum kaizan meeting shenanigans they must go through deciding what to work on/fix next. Fixing a problem affective a few advanced users odd decisions to play with societally depricated OSes won't float very high on their Happy/Sad Panda charts. ;0 ;)~
AVG products are still my personal protection software of choice for modern/supported OSes. I've uninstalled it though from my WinXP 32-Bit VMs and am trying out a mix of some of the other ones out there. A couple known to be more lightweight on the system resources. So far so good. It makes me sad I can't use AVG but its the currently reality for you/me and business decision for them. AVG.
o/
p.s. Oh and by the way… https://bit.ly/rkel2015 <– Play Games! Hear Kids. ;0
I have experienced exactly the same on a real XP3 machine. With AVG FREE installed, base memory is approx 400 MB, but within a day or two will typically be 1 - 1.5 Gb with no apps running. I have removed AVG and base memory starts at just over 200 Mb and stays pretty much that way.
I reported that to AVG, got diverted to the 'chat' Indian helpdesk. I explained the issue. I went through all the rigmarole of upgrading removing and reinstalling and so on. This is way back soon after AVG 2015 came out. I emphasised that I thought there was a bug, a memory leak. I asked them to report this to the AVG programming team. I don't know if that happened or not, but there have been at least two software upgrades since then, and the problem remains.
I think there's a big problem for most users in getting past a frontline helpdesk to someone who actually knows the program.
The last straw was when AVG once more started asking me to reboot every time I accessed the program. So this time I've removed AVG and I will not be reinstalling it. I'm looking for something else, XP compatible and lightweight.
Does AVG itself read these community forums? I hope so, because maybe they'll realise there is a problem.
I appreciate the well written healthy response. More than I was expecing. Thank you for that.
Far as the issue at hand if the PageFile leak really is only affective WinXP 32-Bit than it probably won't ever get fixed. And I don't blame AVG for it. I can only imagine the lean scrummy scrum kaizan meeting shenanigans they must go through deciding what to work on/fix next. Fixing a problem affective a few advanced users odd decisions to play with societally depricated OSes won't float very high on their Happy/Sad Panda charts. ;0 ;)~
AVG products are still my personal protection software of choice for modern/supported OSes. I've uninstalled it though from my WinXP 32-Bit VMs and am trying out a mix of some of the other ones out there. A couple known to be more lightweight on the system resources. So far so good. It makes me sad I can't use AVG but its the currently reality for you/me and business decision for them. AVG.
o/
p.s. Oh and by the way… https://bit.ly/rkel2015 <– Play Games! Hear Kids. ;0
I have experienced exactly the same on a real XP3 machine. With AVG FREE installed, base memory is approx 400 MB, but within a day or two will typically be 1 - 1.5 Gb with no apps running. I have removed AVG and base memory starts at just over 200 Mb and stays pretty much that way.
I reported that to AVG, got diverted to the 'chat' Indian helpdesk. I explained the issue. I went through all the rigmarole of upgrading removing and reinstalling and so on. This is way back soon after AVG 2015 came out. I emphasised that I thought there was a bug, a memory leak. I asked them to report this to the AVG programming team. I don't know if that happened or not, but there have been at least two software upgrades since then, and the problem remains.
I think there's a big problem for most users in getting past a frontline helpdesk to someone who actually knows the program.
The last straw was when AVG once more started asking me to reboot every time I accessed the program. So this time I've removed AVG and I will not be reinstalling it. I'm looking for something else, XP compatible and lightweight.
Does AVG itself read these community forums? I hope so, because maybe they'll realise there is a problem.
Hey All,
I have a series of test VMs that have AVG Free 2015 installed. Every since upgrading from 2014 within a week of a fresh boot the page files on each of them grows and grows. Well beyond even the "hard limits" I try to set in OS page file settings for size. The actual physical memory appears to operate normally. Despite having page files of this size the free physical memory is in keeping with the active programs running. Anywhere between 200-450MB of the 1GB allocated being free.
Additional experiments with 2GB and 4GB of RAM for these VMs with the same program installation foot print experience similar results. In those cases the aforementioned 200-450MB of 1GB free would quite literally be 1.2GB-1.4 of 2GB and 2.2GB-2.4GB of 4GB free respectively.
As a more definitive test I further uninstalled everything but AVG Free 2015 let it run for a week. The page file expectedly grew to between 2-3GB. I uninstalled AVG Free 2015 and the OS remained at the fresh OS memory usage the remainder of the next week. Varrying at most by 2-3MB.
Each VM is WinXP 32-Bit. Allocated 1GB RAM. And a "hard set" page file usage setting of 1.5x RAM. This being both a universal M$ recommendation for page file size allocation and shouldn't allow the page file to grow beyond this size. I do also want to point out I most certainly understand WinXP is long unsupported both my M$ and therefore AVG et. al. Its an odd behavior and wondered if anyone has experienced this.
I look forward to any and all positive and constructive community input.
Thank you. o/