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

The new ReSharper 4.5 works a lot better than the previous 4.x releases. I would recommend you try that one.

Answer 2

Me and my colleagues are also having huge performance issues with ReSharper, just now my ReSharper took 1.1GB of memory. Visual Studio slows down specially when writing JavaScript, it's unbearable. You can turn of the on the fly compilation, but it's the best feature it has...

edit: Everybody in this thread seems to have ReShaprper 4.x, my version is 6.0.

Answer 3

Regarding memory hogging - I've found that my VS2008 memory footprint grows every time I close one solution and open another. This is true even if I close a solution and re-open that same solution.

Answer 4

Turn off the on-the-fly compilation (which, unfortunately, is one of its best features)

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

Yes, 4.5 works much better. My understanding is that 4.5 was to address the performance issues.