Severe memory leak and system freeze with Antigravity Helper processes in Nx monorepo (macOS ARM)

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I am experiencing a severe memory leak that completely freezes my Mac when using Antigravity. The issue seems to be triggered by working inside an Nx monorepo workspace. The IDE becomes totally unresponsive, and macOS starts lagging heavily.

Environment:

  • OS: macOS (Apple Silicon / ARM)

  • IDE: Google Antigravity (Latest version)

  • Project Type: Nx Monorepo (nx.json present)

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Open an existing Nx monorepo project in Antigravity.

  2. Wait a few moments for the IDE to initialize and start background tasks (e.g., Nx daemon).

  3. Open macOS Activity Monitor.

  4. Observe the RAM usage for the Antigravity processes skyrocketing.

Expected Behavior: The IDE should index the Nx workspace efficiently without consuming excessive amounts of RAM or locking up the operating system.

Actual Behavior: The background helpers suffer from a massive memory leak. Looking at my Activity Monitor:

  • Antigravity Helper (Renderer) consumes ~5.8 GB of RAM.

  • Antigravity Helper (Plugin) consumes ~2.6 GB of RAM.

  • Total memory pressure becomes critical, rendering the IDE and the whole OS unusable.