Windows 10: Antimalware service memory usage query

Antimalware service executable is constantly eating around 400mb of my 8gb ram. My CPU and disk usage is fine. I tried disabling windows defender scan schedules via task scheduler and also added antimalware service to windows defender exclusions. Didn't work. Is there any other way to reduce the memory usage or is this sort of memory loss normal? I would very much prefer to free up memory to boost the gaming performance of my device.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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Antimalware Service Executable Constant Disk Usage

Found a great article that will hopefully help you out.

See the link for steps to resolve with screenshots.

https://www.drivereasy.com/knowledge/antimalwar...

 

Antimalware Service Executable problem

I was having the same issue like for weeks on my HP Probook Ci5 12GB, the Antimalware Service Executable process was eating up massive CPU, DISK and RAM. After all the hard time I got searching the solution I finally landed on

this article which helped me.

 

Antimalware Service Executable very high disk usage

For me, the Antimalware Service Executable still eats up my disk usage, but since the above suggestion made it so that it only happens while the machine is idle, that is okay for me. I haven't noticed any annoyance from it since.

(Of course, if I had programs running while not on the machine that also needed a lot of disk operations, the solution would not have worked for me, since then Antimalware Service Executable would interfere with those programs.)

If you are still experiencing problems, perhaps try disabling Antimalware Service Executable and the other service you mentioned (that I don't know) completely? Of course, that is assuming you can live with not having them.

(I don't think there is a way to change how much disk operations the program needs, so when it runs, it'll always have high disk usage if your disk is quite slow)