# Clean up designer memory?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/clean-up-designer-memory/106692>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [May 26, 2025, 3:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/clean-up-designer-memory/106692 "2025-05-26T15:20:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alejandro\_Alaco](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/alejandro_alaco/32/59849_2.png) [@Alejandro\_Alaco](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Alejandro_Alaco)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 3:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/clean-up-designer-memory/106692/1 "2025-05-26T15:20:47Z")

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Hello,

When I reaching my desinger memory limit...is there a way to clean it up?

Or just reopening the project would do?

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/2/3/23a115a7af3b66818b4bb6902db92f2b4dd84e2b.png)

Cheers!

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/clean-up-designer-memory/106692/2 "2025-05-26T16:03:07Z")

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Either the project is extraordinarily complicated, or you are doing something bad within it that is leaking memory. If re-opening the project resets the usage to near zero, it is probably project complexity.

If re-opening the project **doesn't** fix it, you are leaking memory and may need to get IA support involved. In the meantime, try a complete designer exit and restart.

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**Author:** ![0sm0](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/0sm0/32/15228_2.png) [@0sm0](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/0sm0)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2025, 1:33am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/clean-up-designer-memory/106692/3 "2025-05-27T01:33:40Z")

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This is a known issue if you have been opening multiple projects without restarting the designer.

> [@\[IGN-3514\]Opening projects in the designer slowly fills up memory](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ign-3514-opening-projects-in-the-designer-slowly-fills-up-memory/103397):
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> Hello. My team has a fairly large number of projects, and I need to swap between them frequently. The designer has an "File/Open" button, which closes the current project and opens another. However, using this buttons seems to fill up my memory. For example, here is my memory working on one project. Focus mostly on the number it drops to, after garbage collection runs -- about 500 MB. Now, I use the open button to open another project. Note now that garbage collection is only able t…

Restarting designer will reset it.

cheers

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**Author:** ![Alejandro\_Alaco](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/alejandro_alaco/32/59849_2.png) [@Alejandro\_Alaco](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Alejandro_Alaco)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2025, 7:34am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/clean-up-designer-memory/106692/4 "2025-05-27T07:34:21Z")

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The project has a lot of named queries binding, script transform and xy charts with these bindings. The memory goes so high when I do a lot of script transform on the tables and charts. Reopening the project bring it back to low numbers. I can live with it. In other pages I don´t need so much data manipulation.

Cheers