Visual Studio 2005 Memory Usage
Solution 1
From this blog post:
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These changes are all available from the Options dialog (Tools –> Options):Environment
- General:
- Disable “Animate environment tools”
- Documents:
- Disable “Detect when file is changed outside the environment”
- Keyboard:
- Remove the F1 key from the Help.F1Help command
- Help\Online:
- Set “When loading Help content” to “Try local first, then online” or “Try local only, not online”
- Startup:
- Change the “At startup” option to “Show empty environment”
Projects and Solutions
- General:
- Disable “Track Active Item in Solution Explorer”
Text Editor
- General (for each language you want):
- Disable “Navigation bar” (this is the toolbar that shows the objects and procedures drop down lists allowing you to choose a particular object in your code.
- Disable “Track changes”
Windows Forms Designer
- General:
- Set “AutotoolboxPopulate” to false.
- Set “EnableRefactoringOnRename” to false.
Solution 2
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.
Ris Adams
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Updated on June 04, 2022Comments
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Ris Adams almost 2 years
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 amount of memory that VS uses?
I am running VS 2005 with one add-in (TFS)