Rtprotectiondaemon Using A Lot Of Cpu Cycle
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One of my managers brought to me his netbook for maintenance, because according to him it is rather slow recently. Process Explorer shows constant high CPU utilization by the 'System' process. These troubleshooting steps were taken:.
Disabling the antivirus does not solve the problem. Process Explorer shows multiple ntkrnlpa.exe!KeInsertQueueDPC+0x265 threads using massive amounts of CPU time. After disabling the Atheros LAN network card the CPU usage immediately drops to normal level. Stack walking using Windows Performance Toolkit shows L1C62x86.sys being at the end of the tree, however upgrading/downgrading the driver does not solve the problem! Has anyone got a suggestion what should be the next step from here? Could somebody with more experience and understandig about analyzing performance traces please take a look on this trace file? Maybe the solution is obvious from the trace for an expert.
Thanks in advance! Hi, The System process is a kernel mode process which runs system threads (the kernel and loaded device drivers) taking care of network i/o and/or disk i/o, et al. There are several reason can cause this issue: 1.
3rd party applications such as: A. Antivirus on the remote machines keeps on scanning the server.
Firewall programs. Issues with network interface card (NIC) drivers/firmware. Scripts and batch files that place excessive load on the ser v er, possibly run from the remote machines. Windows Security Auditing configured aggressively as to Audit, in particular audits on success. I suggest to remove all unnecessary hardware, then logon with Safe Mode to see if the same issue occurs.
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I'm not using RansomWhere, but I am still seeing RTProtectionDaemon chewing up my CPU (basically stuck at 90% CPU usage). RTProtectionDaemon is definitely a legit part of the Malwarebytes app, though this does bring attention to a matter I'll discuss with the developers. It looks like there's something wrong with the code signature on that process.
We'll definitely look into that. I'm not sure why RansomWhere? Is triggering a warning on that, though. If I had to guess, the download of an updated rules file - which is encrypted - and subsequent overwriting of the original rules file with the new one is probably the issue. RTProtectionDaemon isn't encrypting files, but it is writing already-encrypted files.
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I recently switched from Anti-Malware to Malwarebytes for Mac and recognized that Rtprotectiondaemon uses a lot of memory (Physical Size=2.5GB, VM-compressed=1GB, RSize=300MB in 2 days, according Activity Monitor). I had to kill the process to get back 600MB immediately. Now I stopped real time protection using the menulet interface, and it stays at 14MB (RSize=42,9MB). I didn't observe any CPU anomalies. Regarding RansomWhere?, a detailed explanation covering the determining algorithm can be found at their website. It just alerts the user about any unusual encryption activity and false positives are common. We will definitely be optimizing the software further in the future.
Rtprotectiondaemon Using A Lot Of Cpu Cycles
There's a lot of room to improve. However, if you're not having any performance issues, it's not worth worrying about memory consumption on modern versions of macOS.
Recent versions of macOS are pretty good at managing memory. I currently have a couple websites loaded in tabs in Safari each using nearly 2 GB of RAM. If the memory usage grows enough to cause a performance problem, then that's obviously bad, but I haven't seen reports of that happening so far.
(If it does happen, I definitely want to hear about it.). I recently switched from Anti-Malware to Malwarebytes for Mac and recognized that Rtprotectiondaemon uses a lot of memory (Physical Size=2.5GB, VM-compressed=1GB, RSize=300MB in 2 days, according Activity Monitor). I had to kill the process to get back 600MB immediately. Now I stopped real time protection using the menulet interface, and it stays at 14MB (RSize=42,9MB). I didn't observe any CPU anomalies.
Hi ALN, I had the same issue using Malwarebytes on a French Mac running El Capitan, only worse: the daemon was using 600MB of memory after only 2 hours of use, and rising! Here's what I did 5 days ago: 1) Deactivate RealTime protection 2) Kill the daemon via Activity Monitor. The deamon relaunched immediately, but it's been using between 53 Mb and 63 Mb of memory ever since. Thanks, Manfred!
That's why I posted my observations here. This must be seriously examined by the developers as it's the only process with such a behaviour and it's racing kerneltask, and I think they will. It's important that they are aware of it now. For now I only start the daemon while I'm online (I use my iPad for all my inet work, my computers/TV/etc. Are always offline, except for updates or specific use) and kill the process afterwards.
Then it stays at acceptable range. Cheers, ALN Edited August 9, 2017 by ALN Typo. We will definitely be optimizing the software further in the future. There's a lot of room to improve. However, if you're not having any performance issues, it's not worth worrying about memory consumption on modern versions of macOS.
Recent versions of macOS are pretty good at managing memory. I currently have a couple websites loaded in tabs in Safari each using nearly 2 GB of RAM. If the memory usage grows enough to cause a performance problem, then that's obviously bad, but I haven't seen reports of that happening so far. (If it does happen, I definitely want to hear about it.) Well Thomas, it seems like Muckaluck's post does describe that kind of issue. I found the Rtprotectiondaemon definitely slowed my computer down to a crawl, as it was taking up 1.5GB memory before i killed the process. Were you actually seeing RTProtectionDaemon taking large amounts of your CPU for no good reason? If so, send me a direct message. I'd like to gather more information.
If that wasn't the case, are you certain it was RTProtectionDaemon that caused the performance issue, or could it have been some other coincidental process? I'm not trying to deny the possibility, just trying to gather data. Were you actually seeing RTProtectionDaemon taking large amounts of your CPU for no good reason? If so, send me a direct message. I'd like to gather more information. If that wasn't the case, are you certain it was RTProtectionDaemon that caused the performance issue, or could it have been some other coincidental process?
I'm not trying to deny the possibility, just trying to gather data. It wasn't the CPU cycles, but the memory.
From viewing Activity Monitor I could tell that my Memory Pressure was quite high, and when I finally killed the RTProtectionDaemon process, the memory pressure went down and my computer resumed its normal activity. I found the Rtprotectiondaemon definitely slowed my computer down to a crawl, as it was taking up 1.5GB memory before i killed the process. It seems to me that this is more like beta software, and that users need to tread carefully. I also noticed that unlike the PC version there's no way to end the trial, so users are stuck with the faulty realtime protection unless they carefully change the settings.
This seems like an unfortunate time to start charging full price ($40/yr) for the Mac version. I can confirm that this is exactly happening with my system.
I've left 'Real-Time Protection' disabled and the memory consumption of 'RTProtectionDaemon' stays relatively small. Of course, the irony of this problem is that you lose the one function of this program which is supposed to encourage the user to purchase a subscription. Why purchase one when you can't use 'Real-Time Protection' or do not want to be bothered with this problem and having to constantly kill the process? The program is nothing more than merely updated GUI and possibly improved scanning engine. However, the older version 1.x worked the same without 'Real-Time Protection' and you didn't have to see that it was in 'Trial Mode'.
Hopefully, Malwarebytes doesn't begin a nag campaign to subscribe with this new version. Edited August 17, 2017 by robertleeblairjr. Were you actually seeing RTProtectionDaemon taking large amounts of your CPU for no good reason? If so, send me a direct message. I'd like to gather more information.
If that wasn't the case, are you certain it was RTProtectionDaemon that caused the performance issue, or could it have been some other coincidental process? I'm not trying to deny the possibility, just trying to gather data. RTProtectionDaemon was not, itself, showing high CPU utilization. However, I've noticed a correlation between it being enabled or disabled and the sudden 'kerneltask' using many CPU cycles. I've done multiple trials and there appears to be some merit to this problem whenever performing certain tasks, especially, when the OS is transitioning to sleep or hibernate. I've made a copy of the file and unloaded the daemon from running until this problem is resolved in a future update.
FYI, we have a fix for the memory issue, which will be included in an update planned for September. Thanks for the update. However, like myself and those only interested in occasionally using the manual scanning feature of the program, then this is irrelevant for us during the trial period. I would believe the company's concern would be a product that loses it's major selling point for a subscription if the feature that distinguishes it from the free version is malfunctioning. Hence, those that may consider subscribing to this product that are using it during the trial period are not able to depend on the initial release, 3.x, to not have memory leak issues could be the determining factor for them to not care for subscribing and staying with the free version. Either way, mine and others suggestions are to those who have the program and notice within their processes that RTProtectionDaemon is consuming large amounts of memory, then kill the process and disable Real-Time Protection. Also, you can disable the daemon from being launched by using 'launchctl' and its sub-commands because it is present, even after, disabling the Real-Time Protection feature upon reboot.
I'm aware of why the daemon is present after the disabling of the feature in the GUI. So, if the user does not plan on re-enabling Real-Time Protection, then they do not have a need for the daemon residing in memory. FYI, we have a fix for the memory issue, which will be included in an update planned for September. I hope the fix will be published before my 'premium trial' ends (in 14 days), so I can decide whether it is worth to pay for a license. I accidentally became aware of the memory issue when I viewed Activity Monitor about some other unrelated process. RTProtectionDeamon was using 9.3GB (!) of memory.
I have lots of memory installed, so it did not cause performance problems (yet). After a restart, memory usage by RTProtectionDeamon started with 30.5MB, steadily increasing. Now, about 20 hours later, it uses 426.5MB. I hope the fix will be published before my 'premium trial' ends (in 14 days), so I can decide whether it is worth to pay for a license. I accidentally became aware of the memory issue when I viewed Activity Monitor about some other unrelated process. RTProtectionDeamon was using 9.3GB (!) of memory.
I have lots of memory installed, so it did not cause performance problems (yet). After a restart, memory usage by RTProtectionDeamon started with 30.5MB, steadily increasing. Now, about 20 hours later, it uses 426.5MB. RTProtectionDaemon grew to almost 2GB within 24 hours of performing a clean installation, not an upgrade, with the latest version, 3.0.2.422. The developers are aware of the problem and/or know the program bug to squash with an update. However, it's yet to be seen that this is a priority for them to have a steadfast release. This is according to a staff member on this board who stated that the bug would not be resolved with an update until sometime in September.