

I don't seem to ever need to use any of the privileged operations you mentioned. So it keeps running until the mac becomes unusable. What probably happening is avast is scanning files as you accessthem and it's picking that up. I would consider that normal to good if running a full system scan.

Looks like a classic memory leak to me.ģ. It has determined you hard drive is capable of around 60MB/s and it's thinks it's being accessed as fast as it can be.

It grows almost linearly in time, to >8GB and then mac effectively freezes with little response from apps and coloured circle of death appears almost constantly.
