# zeek3.0.0 high memory usage

**URL:** https://community.zeek.org/t/zeek3-0-0-high-memory-usage/5885
**Category:** Zeek
**Created:** [October 31, 2019, 10:21pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/zeek3-0-0-high-memory-usage/5885 "2019-10-31T22:21:48Z")
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### Author: ![kilotao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@kilotao](https://community.zeek.org/u/kilotao)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2019, 10:21pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/zeek3-0-0-high-memory-usage/5885/1 "2019-10-31T22:21:48Z")

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After upgrading to zeek 3.0.0, we noticed that memory utilization on zeek workers were constantly at 1G with vsize=1G. It was about half of the usage with 2.6.1. Any ideas?

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/zeek/original/1X/f09d732bc2cc7c7cc7e35db67cf4e1d5233ce7a7.png) [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2022, 3:46pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/zeek3-0-0-high-memory-usage/5885/2 "2022-05-06T15:46:50Z")

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