[Tek-El]

Hi there,

We recently noticed that CodeMix Engine is using massive amounts of memory on startup. For more context, we’re using Eclipse version 2020-06 (4.16.0) and Windows 10 build 1909. Our development machines have 16 GB of memory and CodeMix Engine is using upwards of 10 GB on startup. At one point, the massive memory usage interfered with the video driver on one of the development machines, and the machine had to be hard-rebooted as a result. It may take several minutes for the memory usage to drop to well under 1 or 2 GB.

We’ll greatly appreciate any assistance you can provide.

[support-swapna]

Tek-El,

Sorry that you are seeing this issue with CodeMix.

Can you please give us some more details?

1. Is this a new installation of CodeMix? Please recheck if you are working with the latest release of CodeMix i.e 2020.7.22 (Window > Preferences > CodeMix page will have the version details)
2. Can you tell us what project types you are working with? Angular, TypeScript, just JavaScript, something else?
3. Could you also give us a list of your extensions (screenshots would do fine) from the Help > CodeMix Extensions page?
4. If you close all editors, no builds running and restart Eclipse, do you still see high memory usage for CodeMix?

When you next experience the issue, could you please reach us via Live Chat – Help > CodeMix > Live Chat? Our engineers should be able to diagnose this issue live, and hopefully have a better idea of what is going on.

Apologies for inconvenience caused.

–Swapna
Genuitec Support

[Tek-El]

Hi Swapna,

Thanks for your response. Our apologies for the delay in getting back to you. To answer your questions:

1. It’s version 2020.7.22.
2. Our project uses Angular and TypeScript.
3. There are too many extensions to fit in a single screenshot. They’re listed below:
a. Angular Language Service – 0.1000.2-cm
b. Angular Snippets (Version 8) – 8.3.0
c. Auto Close Tag – 0.5.6
d. Beautify – 1.4.11
e. Code Runner – 0.9.15
f. Debugger for Chrome – 4.12.3
g. Docker – 0.6.2
h. ESLint – 1.9.0
i. HTMLHint – 0.6.0
j. htmltagwrap – 0.0.7
k. JavaScript (ES6) code snippets – 1.7.2
l. JavaScript and TypeScript Nightly – 3.9.2
m. Node Debug – 1.39.3
n. Node Debug (legacy) – 1.40.1
o. Path Intellisense – 1.4.2
p. Reference Search View – 0.0.30
q. Sass – 1.5.1
r. TSLint – 1.2.2
4. Upon one of our developers restarting Eclipse, the high memory usage did not recur. While we’re pleased with this result, it does make us wonder what caused the earlier high memory usage.

[support-swapna]

Tek-El,

Thank you for the details.
The extensions are looking fine, but I will forward it to the dev team to take another look.

Glad that the restart fixed the problem for now. At this point, we cannot say which resources were consuming the memory earlier, but please reach us via Live Chat (Help > CodeMix > Live Chat) the next time you see high memory usage, so we can run some diagnostic tools to help access the usage.

Apologies for inconvenience caused.

–Swapna
Genuitec Support

[support-swapna]

Tek-El,

The dev team looked at the extensions and do not see any possible high memory usage with them.
Please either reach us via Live Chat the next time you see the issue. As a quick fix, instead of restarting the Eclipse IDE, you can select Reload CodeMix Engine from the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P and type reload to see the option).

Apologies for inconvenience caused.

–Swapna
Genuitec Support

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