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Is figma consuming a lot of RAM for you too?

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
February 25, 2021
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Hello Figma community !
(I hope I’m posting this in the good categorie)

I’m working from home (yay covid you know) and I constantly have MS Teams, Figma and Firefox opened. I’ve been done with my computer (i7 8th gen, 16gb ddr4 ram, nvme ssd) lags and all the software freezing so I started searching the problem. I figured it out quickly : my ram was full (15,6 of 16 gb).

I rebooted the computer and softwares, and then my pc immediately started using 10GB.
Windows uses 5gb, Teams 1gb, Firefox 2gb (I’ve got a lot of tabs) and 2GB are immediately dedicated to Figma.

Isn’t that big for Figma to use immediately 2GB** (i opened only one projects) after launching ? It goes to 4.5GB if I open 2 or 3 projects…
Is that normal for Figma to use that amount of RAM or am I doing something wrong ?
Do I need a better pc for that usage ?

I’m a student using figma for almost all of my works and buying a better computer is not an option for now.

What are your tips and pros about Figma RAM (and CPU) usage ?
Tell me 🙂 !

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Kate_Mulcahy

I have been having this same issue for a couple of months now. Will getting a machine with 32GB RAM fix it? It makes figma crawl which makes is super hard to get my work done.

andyt

No 32gb wont fix, Figma just uses more memory.

Can confirm Figma has 47% of my ram - even with 32gb DDR5.

Magdalena_Zelek

Continuing the discussion from Is figma consuming a lot of RAM for you too?:

Hey! I was working on the desktop Figma app, and it was super glitchy and laggy — I couldn’t get anything done. I opened Task Manager and saw that Figma had opened like 14 times on its own, just eating up all my memory. I switched to the browser version and everything’s fine now, but it’s a bummer because I actually liked the desktop app. :<

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