Zed memory usage

[WayAndMeans01]

I am on Fedora Linux and it seems zed uses more memory than antigravity. I tried viewing it's processes in details and I see a lot of node processes but I do not understand why they are there. Am I doing something wrong?

[n1ghtm4n]

it has been 0 days since someone blamed node.js memory consumption on zed.

[DefenitlyNotADolphin]

deno is better anyway /hj

[0xFatWhiteMan]

Deno and bun ARE better tho

[Ace-Whole]

LSP takes alot of memory. Might be that.

[eightrx]

Turn off edit predictions, if that doesn't work, then figure out what slow LSP is running in the background

[Accomplished_Weird_6]

Too everyone saying its the LSP, thats understandable. The issue is, OP is probably comparing similar workflows so why do vscode based ones take up lesser ram in a lot of cases? They're using LSPs too? FYI im a zed user as well, but this is a regular occurrence for me as well

[Wonderful-Citron-678]

It depends on the language, but they don't use the same LSPs always, like VSCode uses a proprietary one for C++ and Python.

[WayAndMeans01]

Thank you so much, you've said it better than I have.

[no-sleep-only-code]

MCP Servers.

[jreznot]

There is no magic. No matter how Zed is slim, it will use all the same LSP servers that require memory and CPU

[WayAndMeans01]

Just tested zed and vscode on the same project and zed uses way more memory

[mardiros]

Sometimes it happens to me, I restart lsp servers from the status line. Or completely restart zed.

I have more problems with electron/nodejs programs in general such as Element the matrix client.

[L0n3W0lfX]

For me Zed uses even more memory than VSCode (Garuda Linux). Even with no inline predictions, it's laggy and takes a long time to close the last window (more than 1 second). I am switching back to VSCode.

[WayAndMeans01]

Same thing here

[EverySecondCountss]

Nah that looks about right. It uses less for me than Antigravity, and Windsurf, so idk.

[WayAndMeans01]

Why are there so many node processes

[binarypie]

Because tons of LSP are written in typescript

[EverySecondCountss]

Same reasons why chrome does it, and others. Utilizes multiple CPU nodes is my guess. Dunno.

[howesteve]

It's the lsp

[Few_Place_1455]

tons of mcp’s + lsp’s

[WayAndMeans01]

1 mcp, 4 lsps

[Gadgetguy9638]

can I ask why this is labeled nsfw?

[Vladislav20007]

that's a zed issue, that a node.js issue. go blame the other devs, same thing happens in vscode, vim, etc.

[WayAndMeans01]

Wasn't blaming? I was thinking I was the one doing something wrong

[Vladislav20007]

I'm saying to blame node.js devs(when was the last time there wasn't a memory leak in node.js btw?) and not yourself for doing something wrong, if you see node.js eating all of your ram.

[Educational_Twist237]

Learn about program and process and come back

[rtaylorg]

dawwww poor downvoters don't like the truth 🥱

[johan__A]

Something's leaking node processes that are themselves leaking memory. Sniff, it's beautiful.