This support statement is provided by the Product Management Team.
Products like ENS and VSE do
not dictate the paging of physical memory (RAM). The Microsoft Memory Manager handles this function, and determines when memory is paged to disk to free physical memory.
There is a scenario where memory can be migrated from virtual (paged) to physical (active) memory as a result of memory scanning by ENS and VSE. Scanning of memory can occur because of the
Processes on Enable setting for the on-access scanner. Or, scanning can occur when you perform an on-demand scan of memory on running processes. If you run applications that are sensitive to the allocation of physical memory, you can choose to disable these ENS and VSE features.
While McAfee products do consume memory, they do not request the paging of physical memory. The consumption of physical memory is dynamic. When physical memory resources become depleted, the Microsoft Memory Manager pages the contents of seldom-accessed physical memory to disk to free physical memory for use by more demanding tasks.
This behavior is described in depth in the following Microsoft article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918483.
The consumption of physical memory is a result of the current product architecture. If you have a suggestion or design enhancement request to improve protection and performance, the product development team recommends that you submit a Product Idea.
If you require a change to product functionality, submit a new product idea at:
NOTE: The Ideas forum replaces the previous Product Enhancement Request system.
