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How to determine which plugins (if any) are eating RAM?

#1

I’ve left my computer on over the weekend, and returned today to find that Sublime Text 3156 is using roughly 2.8 GB of RAM. I have 13 files open (most of which are less than 600 lines long), and dozens of plugins, so I’m not sure how I would narrow down to which plugin or plugins are misbehaving, or how to determine if Sublime itself is the issue.

How can I tell which part of Sublime is actually holding onto that much memory?

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#2

What plugins are you using?

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#3

This is the list in my “Installed Packages” folder:

  • 0_package_control_loader
  • 1337 Color Scheme
  • AlignTab
  • BracketHighlighter
  • CheerfullyDark
  • Color Highlighter
  • Colorsublime
  • DocBlockr
  • Dockerfile Syntax Highlighting
  • Dracula Color Scheme
  • EditorConfig
  • Elixir
  • FileDiffs
  • fish
  • Gherkin Auto-Complete Plus
  • GitGutter
  • GitSavvy
  • HTML Mustache
  • LSP
  • Material Theme
  • ModernPerl
  • nginx
  • Package Control
  • RegReplace
  • Select Quoted
  • SelectUntil
  • SideBarEnhancements
  • SublimeLinter-contrib-htmlhint
  • SublimeLinter-jshint
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#4

I do not see any plugin which can cause ram usage increase. You can look into this issue:

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#5

Just looking at the types of packages, I would first try the following:

  • LSP
  • GitGutter
  • FileDiffs

A syntax package, or a package doing search and replace seems like unlikely candidates for not releasing references to objects. Something like LSP would seem like a more likely candidate, but in no way am I suggesting the plugin is poorly written - I have never used it.

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