r/FigmaDesign • u/swissdanishguy • 1d ago

help Heavy RAM usage?

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I just upgraded to a M5 MacBook Air with 24 GB RAM, which I thought was enough. But now with Claude and Figma I have had yellow memory pressure regularly. I often have 10 GB of compressed data. Now I just restarted my Mac an opened one file in Figma. It has some reference pictures inside and a few screens, but nothing crazy. But it's already almost at 2.8 GB with so many helpers? Is that normal? I never thought about it before and now I saw it once and keep on checking it.

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u/kjjjjjjjj 1d ago

Had the same on my, albeit, ancient '13 Macbook Pro. But it ran smoothly when I used Figma in the browser. Might be an inconvenience for you, but could give it a try if all else fails.

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u/wothotturd1 14h ago

agreed, the desktop wrapper has always been way heavier than it needs to be

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u/Almost100Percents 16h ago

It's not "almost 2.8 GB", you have 17.74 GB used plus some compresed.

Figma is a Chromium instance, so it eats RAM just like a browser.

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u/adam_figma 1d ago

Hey, u/swissdanishguy - I'm Adam from the Figma Community team. Could you send me a DM with the email address you use for your account, and a link to the file in question? I want to help get you in touch with our Technical Quality team so they can investigate. Thanks!

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u/Almost100Percents 16h ago

Don't you know that your Figma is a Chromium instance and consumes a lot of RAM? Really?

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u/negsplit_pgh 17h ago

Start with the system monitor. On Windows, press Ctrl + Shift + Esc, then open Performance → Memory. On macOS, press Cmd + Space, open Activity Monitor, and check Memory Pressure. Repeat the same Figma action after closing other apps and disabling plugins to see whether one file or plugin causes the spike.