ReSharper sluggishness

Question

I like ReSharper, but it is a total memory hog. It can quickly swell up and consume a half-gig of RAM without too much effort and bog down the IDE. Does anybody know of any way

Answer 1

If you are working on large source files, Resharper does get sluggish (I'm working on version 5.0 at the time of writing this).

You can view the memory usage of Resharper by clicking on Resharper options -> General -> Show memory use in status bar.

When I first did this, I noticed Resharper had clocked up hundreds of megabytes of memory usage! However, the next step worked for me in (temporarily) fixing the slugishness:

Right click the memory usage, and select "Collect garbage" - this seemed to fix the slugishness for me straight away.