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Desktop renderer runs out of memory loading large sessions

“The renderer process grows to ~5 GB and is killed with an out-of-memory error.”

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Desktop renderer runs out of memory loading large sessions. The renderer grows to about 5 GB within minutes of opening a session, crashes, then reloads the same session and crashes again.

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Where
Desktop app renderer
Error text
'renderer' process exited with 'oom'
Versions
2.1.286 to 2.1.292
Platforms
macOS, Windows
How bad
Stops work: a core feature can't be used.

Not quite your bug?

  1. Idle sessions keep processes alive7 people

Original reports2, newest first

  1. Out of Memory errors causing frequent crashes#100197
  2. Desktop app renderer OOM-crash loop when opening a large cloud session (600 MB → 5 GB in ~50 s)#99538

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