Antivirus for mac - heavy RAM usage

dogJW

Hi there - I'm a new bitdefender user and just installed the latest version of antivirus for mac on my mac, running el capitan.

I'm noticing in the activity monitor that -- with Bitdefender running or not -- a process called BDLDaemon is typically occupying between 700-800 MB of RAM, at any given time.  Is there a setting I'm missing or something else that can be done to reduce this RAM usage?   My mac has 16GB ram, but that still seems way too high!

many thanks!

dogJW

Correction....I am running Antivirus for Mac 2017 on OSX Sierra, not El Capitan.