Visual Studio Using Excessive amount of Ram

Question

Hi,

My visual studio is using 90% of the total Ram I have (4 gigs) and it is freezing my visual studio also. Is there any way to make this more efficient and make my visual studio go faster?

It does this when i open a existing project or save a certain file.

Answer 1

I have the same issue.

Windows 7 x64. VS2008. Every time it does a syntax check or anything like that it adds up another 10-20mbs to memory consumption.

I have to restart it a couple of times every afternoon because I run out of RAM.

I have IIS and an SQL2005 running, but nothing other than that. No addons or anything except for Tortoise SVM.

Any suggestions, anyone?

EDIT:

Actually it turned out I was coding in an aspx file with some custom tags, so everytime i would modify it, intelliscense would signal some errors. My guess is that it keeps a history of these errors, and manages the memory very-very poorly. So, it found 7 errors and that ate up 15-25mb every time.

The only way I could get around it was to code in included files.