[IGN-3514]Opening projects in the designer slowly fills up memory

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 to get me down to 600 MB.

Opening the first project again (to show that it wasn't just that one is heavier), we can see that garbage collection only gets it down to 700 MB.

I would expect opening a new project to clear away the old one, and free up all the memory resources. However, it does not. After about 8 project swaps, the designer memory fills up to a level that forces me to restart.

I'm on Ignition 8.1.38, windows 10.

Is this a known issue?

I experience this as well. After about 8-10 project swaps, I need to close the session and open a new one. I'm on 8.1.44 right now, but recall this being an issue from many (all?) versions of 8.1.x.

This is a known issue; no timeline on a resolution but it's an issue we're aware of and planning to work on soon.

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