Is this supposed to happen? I had 5 to 8 projects open at the time, but only one was actually running a job. How can it consume so much memory?
Hi @myoshi ,
Thank you for reporting this. Consuming 47 GB of memory is certainly not expected behavior. This usually happens because each open Antigravity IDE window runs its own extension host and file-indexing processes—so when the app reopens after a crash, restoring all 5–8 project windows at once (combined with a known memory leak in earlier macOS builds) causes a sudden spike in RAM usage.
To resolve this and prevent the crash on startup, please try the following steps:
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Update to the Latest Antigravity IDE (
v2.5.5):- Please update to Antigravity IDE (
v2.5.5) from https://antigravity.google/download, which resolves the memory exhaustion issue seen on earlier macOS builds.
- Please update to Antigravity IDE (
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Limit Automatic Window Restoration (
window.restoreWindows):- Open Settings (
Cmd + ,), search forwindow.restoreWindows, and set it toone(ornone) so the IDE does not reload all 5–8 project windows simultaneously when reopened.
- Open Settings (
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Use a Single Workspace & Exclude Large Folders:
- Use File > Add Folder to Workspace… to manage multiple projects in a single window rather than separate instances, and add large dependency folders (such as
node_modules,dist, orbuild) to.geminiignoreorfiles.watcherExclude.
- Use File > Add Folder to Workspace… to manage multiple projects in a single window rather than separate instances, and add large dependency folders (such as
Hi Naveen,
Thank you for the detailed troubleshooting steps and explanation regarding the Antigravity IDE memory issue.
I will try these steps out soon and see if they help resolve the problem on my end.
Best regards,
Mitsuru