haskell/haskell-ide-engine

Is it normal for hie to take ~4GB of memory per instance?

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#665 opened on Jun 28, 2018

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Description

I currently have a workflow where I usually have a couple different projects open, each of them has the VSCode integration with hie. I find that each editor has it's own hie process and that process takes about 4G of RAM. Is this typical/expected or is something in my setup wrong/different than others?

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performance
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performance
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Research direction
Investigate typical memory usage of HIE by profiling a simple Haskell project. Review the HIE source code or documentation for configuration options that affect memory consumption. Check if there are known issues or discussions about memory leaks in the repository.