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Huge memory usage on Mac

#1

Hello,

I posted this already in the “Dev 2131 build” thread, but since this happened also with older builds and also with the current 2132 that I’m using, I thought of start a new thread. (Original Post in Dev 2131 build thread)

I use ST2 for Javascript programming with normal not more than 30-70 files (excluding images) per project. I tend to have 4-10 different files open at a time, with most of the files have just a few kb of code.
I’m on Mac OS X 10.7.2 and normally have ST2 open for the whole day with sometimes 2 or 3 to 4 different instances (each with a project)
As mentioned in the other thread, after some time the memory usage of the process is pretty huge, currently it’s 837MB and I opened ST2 10hrs ago.
The other thread mentioned that the root of this cause are definitely the custom packages, so I tried this over the weekend with custom Packages installed and without. I normally use only 2 Packages: SublimeCodeIntel and SublimeLinter. All the other stuff is pretty vanilla (another font e.g. of course).
But as I mentioned, even if I remove the packages from the directory and restart, the process claims more and more memory over the whole day.

I often do a full project search to find a specific string, but since I started with ST2 just a few weeks ago I haven’t covered all the extra features and rarely use it for now.

For comparison, a few months ago I used TextMate for the same work and in most of the time TM didn’t grabbed more than 100MB of memory.

So any help here would be really welcome.
Thanks.

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#2

O.K. this way didn’t seem to work to get support.

Is there another way on how to contact the support and get heard by someone of the dev-team?

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#3

I have the same issue but it seems it’s recent. One of the last update introduce a leak I guess.
I don’t know how I could help there’s no crash report (it doesnt crash, only terribly slow).

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#4

mickeyben: if Sublime Text is running slowly, it’s almost always caused by a plugin. Please follow these instructions: sublimetext.com/docs/2/revert.html

rretsiem: What memory usage are you seeing when you don’t have plugins installed?

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#5

I have exactly the same memory usage with or without plugins.
As I wrote in my (o.k. really long :smile: ) first post, I tried it also without plugins a whole day, and had the same usage of memory at the end of the day. It was a fresh installation, without any other packages as the default ones.

At least for me, ST2 doesn’t get slower at all, it’ still working with the same speed as on starting a fresh instance. Maybe it would get slower if my system begins to use the swap-space, this could be also the issue for you @mickeyben?

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#6

rretsiem, I’m afraid I have no insight on what may be causing this - it’s not at all the usual behavior that people see.

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#7

I’m working in a rather small grails project (OSX + ST2) and today I realized that ST2 was using 2.5+GB of memory with just 4 or 5 open files!

I’ll try to dig further

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#8

I had the same issue and found out that I had an open folder with a massive archive (think it was a .7z or .tar) file trying to open in the background.

I closed it and everything’s back to being hunky dory…

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#9

I have no plugins and no folder views. 16 files open on OSX 10.14

Sublime text 3211 is using 1.39GB

looks for a new text editor…

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#10

Is one of the files open part of a large git repository?

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