What is vsmon.exe and why does it take so much RAM all of a sudden?

[Elledan]

This process (vsmon.exe) is currently taking 55.572 MB RAM. I doubt this is normal. I'm using Win2k Pro.

This system has been up for well over 16 days, so it's probably due to memory leaks. Is there anything which I can do about this program taking so much RAM besides rebooting?

If there's no way to solve this without rebooting, no problem since I've 384 MB RAM, but it would be nice to bring down the memory use.

Thanks.

 

[DeeK]

vsmon.exe is part of Zonealarm. You should be able to safely kill all Zonealarm processes and restart it without rebooting.

P.S. You want to know bad? I'm at work using FPGA software that, right now, is using 195MB of memory while idle, with no open files or projects. Ouch.

 

[Elledan]

Thanks for your help. I restarted ZoneAlarm and vsmon.exe uses 3.3 MB now.

What is FPGA software? Must be something big if it uses so much RAM

 

[DeeK]

FPGA programs basically compile circuit descriptions written in high-level languages into fusemaps that implement that circuit in an FPGA (field programmable gate array). When working with chips in the hundreds of thousands of gates, it gets pretty RAM intensive. 1GB of RAM is recommended for the largest chips (> 1,000,000 gates).

 

[Elledan]

And then people are telling that rendering 3d-scenes and editing videos requires so much RAM

How much RAM does those PC's at your work have? 2 GB?