Visual Studio Memory Usage

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Visual Studio Memory Usage

I find that quite often Visual studio memory usage will average ~150-300 Mb of RAM. As a developer who very often needs to run with multiple instances of Visual studio open. Are there any performance tricks to optimize the ammount of memory that VS uses.

I am running VS 2005 with one add-in (TFS)

Buy more RAM. VS is a memory pig, but it's worth the overhead, IMO.

Dana 2008-10-03 19:03:27

Doesn't actually answer the question...VS can only use up to 2GB of memory without hacking the binary.

Scott Dorman 2008-10-03 19:16:44

+7 A:

Take a look at this thread and blog post.

Scott Dorman 2008-10-03 19:04:08

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

Causas 2008-10-03 21:46:34

Can you update the tread link still points to stackoverflow beta... I was able to get to it but would make it easier.

J.13.L 2010-06-23 16:41:34

+1 A:

RAM is your friend. Get more.

Joseph Daigle 2008-10-03 19:14:12

Doesn't actually answer the question...VS can only use up to 2GB of memory without hacking the binary.

Scott Dorman 2008-10-03 19:17:18

+1 A:

Upgrade to a 64-bit OS. My instances of VS were taking ~700MB each (very large solutions).. and you rapidly run out of room with that.

Everyone on my team that has switched to 64-bit (and 8GB RAM) has wondered why they didn't do it sooner.

Andy Stevenson 2008-10-04 03:26:29

+1 A:

minimize and re-maximize the main vs window to get vs to release the memory.

2009-05-28 15:12:33

you can try memory optimizer expert,it can auto optimize your memory,free download here:http://www.memoryoptimizerexpert.com

memory optimizer 2010-03-24 15:44:58

By uninstalling (and re-installing) Visual Assist the problem got solved for me.

Mattias Marder 2010-07-30 04:42:54

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