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Memory Leak on El Capitan

#1

I just upgraded my MBP (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014) to El Capitan today. With only light use of ST3 (build 3103), after an hour or so of working with other tools, I got the dreaded “Your system is running low on application memory”. In the list Sublime Text showed (“paused”).

With the dialog still alive, I fired up Activity Monitor and scanned for big memory users. Holy crap, Sublime Text was using 68gb! (not a misprint) This never happened before, when I had Yosemite. Please advise what I can send in to help debug this.

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#2

Ok, it’s related to the Side Bar. I had it open on a very large directory. I opened ST and watched Activity Monitor for awhile. I only had three tabs open and was not doing any editing. But the memory shot up to 6 GB when it finally occurred to me that the side bar was open. From the view menu I chose Side Bar > Hide Side Bar and the memory came crashing down. It’s been stable at 256 mb now while I’ve been typing this and has not increased.

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#3

What packages do you have installed?

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#4

Package Control and Side Bar Folders.

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#5

Perhaps trying disabling both, then restart Sublime Text and see if the issue persists?

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