Why is Webstorm memory usage so high?
Hi,
It's been like this the last few versions, i'm on version WebStorm 2024.3.5 Build #WS-243.26053.12, built on March 12, 2025
And literally on the “Welcome to WebStorm” screen, it's using 5gb of memory
I don't have Full Line Code Completion, Machine learning Code Completion or Machine Learning on.
It's also the same if I disable the few plugins I have installed (.env, .ignore and Prisma ORM)
Thanks
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How big is your project, what
Xmxvalue is specified in Help | Change Memory Settings? Could you please capture a memory snapshot using the "Memory Leak or High Memory Consumption" section of this article: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/207241235-Reporting-performance-problems when the IDE memory usage is high? You can enable the memory indicator in the status bar, in the bottom of the application frame (right-click the status bar to enable it) to track the memory usage.Note that the memory usage in OS task manager normally differs from Java application memory usage. OS Task Manager is reporting the overall memory used by Java process which consists of Java application heap + JVM resources + whatever else, it's a native OS process vs. Java application running in JVM. See https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018776919-Understanding-IDE-memory-allocation- for more info.