# Clean up designer memory? **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**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")
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): > > 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 --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/clean-up-designer-memory/106692)._