visual studio 2010 memory consumption

Question

I am having problems with my visual studio 2010 where its memory consumption increases quickly while the application is open. I unistalled all plug ins and now just have the clean version. But while I have the solution open, the memory increases from ~300K to 1GB to such a point if it hasnt crashed, I need to kill the process. The version of the VS is professional and it happens for different solutions.

I feel it may down to the locking on VS2010 config files eating in to memory but thats a guess.

Anyone have similar issues or how I might go about finding what the issues is?

Answer 1

I was having the exact same problem working with large solutions. Give this plugin a try, Solution Load Manager, it lets you essentially "lazy load" projects in your solution, so you only have the ones you're actively working in open and consuming memory.

Worked wonders for me.