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Clement_Chartrain
Clement_Chartrain
Feb 25, 2021 3:04 PM UTC
Question

Is figma consuming a lot of RAM for you too?

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.

  1. 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…
  2. Is that normal for Figma to use that amount of RAM or am I doing something wrong ?
  3. 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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    13 replies

    Yulia
    Yulia
    Feb 25, 2021 3:28 PM UTC

    Same problem

      Baki
      Baki
      Feb 28, 2021 9:23 AM UTC

      same problem for me too in MacOS big sur.

        Yulia
        Yulia
        Mar 23, 2021 1:43 PM UTC

        Memory problems appear when trying to update the component library

        Yulia
        Yulia
        Mar 23, 2021 2:03 PM UTC

        I have a large number of nested components. There is no possibility to move the master components to another file - therefore it creates huge problems and prevents the optimisation of my design system.

        Corey_Korhan
        Corey_Korhan
        New Member
        Oct 19, 2021 8:03 PM UTC

        Just wanted to bump this very old thread as this is still a problem. Freshly launched figma and already 15 gigs ram reserved for it. Havent moved a single pixel yet.

        Screenshot 2021-10-19 at 21.02.35

          Clement_Chartrain
          Clement_ChartrainAuthor
          Oct 19, 2021 8:28 PM UTC

          Hi Corey

          With time I found a solution that works for me (at least on Windows OS).

          I didn’t thought Cleaner software would work (I consider them as scam) but it effectively wipes the temporary files pending for firefox and figma.

          First, I shutdown figma and firefox
          Second, I use a “Cleaner software”, CCleaner in my case, in order to clean “temporary files”
          Third, I restart my computer
          At this point, ram usages of figma and firefox became meaningless when I launch them.

          Looks like figma is accumulating things and keeps loading them on ram unless you clean it manually.

          This ritual works for me but I got no clues if it works on MacOS

            Corey_Korhan
            Corey_Korhan
            New Member
            Oct 19, 2021 8:44 PM UTC

            There’s cache on macOS as well and it’s much space hogging compared to win. Just have to find a way to clean them though as I also think the same about cleaners heh. I’ll update here if it works 🙂

            Thanks for your reply @Clement_Chartrain

            Moshood_Ajibose
            Moshood_Ajibose
            Oct 23, 2021 7:39 AM UTC

            Figma is consuming up to 8gigs of RAM on my 16gb Hp OMEN Laptop

            Ligia_Berg
            Ligia_Berg
            Apr 20, 2022 2:31 PM UTC

            I’m having using Figma since mids 2021 and now I have that problem… since a month or so…
            I did the Ccleaner thing but didn’t work at all. Idk what to do to solve this problem. Figma consumes a lot of RAM that sometimes freeze my pc and I have to restart the system. I notice that this is not happening in Figma web, but I wan’t to use Figma for desktop.
            I need some reply from Figma’s tech support…

            Laura_Garcia
            Laura_Garcia
            Jul 3, 2022 10:07 PM UTC

            I also have the same problem.
            My computer has 16gb of RAM.
            More and more often, figma consumes all my RAM and freezes my computer.
            I have to quit figma and reopen it but sometimes even this doesn’t fix the issue.

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