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I'm having some issues in which Visual Studio 2022 (Professional) appears to have a memory leak.
When I use it for a length of time, whilst accessing and running different solutions my memory creeps up.
The highest I've got this to is 10GB before my computer just became completely unresponsive (as I've got 16GB of RAM).
It seems to be profile specific though, as none of my other colleagues have this issue, and I can replicate this on another machine at home.
I've attached all processes running. Does anything look out of ordinary in here?
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It seems to be profile specific though, as none of my other colleagues have this issue, and I can replicate this on another machine at home.
Do you perhaps have an add-in on both your installations that your colleagues don't have?
I've not got any add-ins (such as Resharper etc..) on Visual Studio. The only thing I have is Web Development, C# Development via the Visual Studio Installer - of which all our colleagues have.
A lot of my colleagues are running older versions of Visual Studio (2019), and we only have one other colleague on 2022 who is not experiencing this issue.
I don't know what else to suggest then - you'll need to have a solid way of reproducing it.
Is the other VS2022 user opted-in to the visual-studio-experience-improvement-program?
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Hi @Brian Elliott , welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum. You can try to reset VS general settings. If you can reproduce this issue, I suggest you create and save the memory dump files, and then open a ticket on our Developer Community with the memory dump files attached for further check.
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Hello Brian, I experimented the same memory bloating with Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022 (64 bits) - Version 17.3.3, in the same circumstances, that is after using it for some time without restarting it and opening/closing multiple solutions. I got a massive 18 300 Mb memory leak:
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I'm developing using C++. I migrated from 2019 to 2022 and since then my machine slows down a few times a month. I'm leaving everything open, putting the machine to sleep at night. So when it happens then I look at the memory (active private working set) and I see that VS 2022 then takes up to 30 gigabytes and more, the amount which I normally have available. Restarting it is good for another few days.
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I have the same issue, did you find out how to fix it?
I am also using VS 2022 professional and have a similar kind of memory leakage problem when running multiple projects.
@satya karki @Brian Elliott It looks like the trick is to disable this option, it seems to work for me :
Options > Text Editor > C# > Advanced > "Run code analysis in separate process"
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When I open 1 particular .Net 5 C# solution, VS 2022 memory rises up to 22GB and goes up and down. I have tried disabling "Run code analysis in separate process".
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The problem remains un-resolved in 17.19.6. The C++ fix is:
Tools-Options-Text Editor-C++-Advanced-Disable Background Code Analysis-True
Bob