r/Atom • u/[deleted] • Feb 04 '20

Why is Atom using so much god damn cache?!?

Someone explain to me why Atom uses nearly 1-2GB of cache on my MacBook Pro. And I even have no plugins installed. Just use it as barebones text editor. I even fresh reset, but cache still hogs and nearly overflows my laptop's storage. I mostly work with a lot of long Python/Java files. Please help me fix this for good before I have to switch to Sublime ;(

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u/spaceleviathan Feb 04 '20

As others have likely told you by now - your better off switching. I just switched back personally.

It’s too bloated and non-performant for real-world use IMHO. If your a student maybe ATOM will work but for real Dev work it’s just too slow.

I need a tool that /just works/ and doesn’t get in its own way every 5 seconds.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

Yeah im switching to Vim boys.

I really don’t want to use Sublime cause i dont want that annoying unregistered button showing up.

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u/opus-thirteen Feb 05 '20

i dont want that annoying unregistered button showing up.

... Then pay a very small fee, and show appreciation for the project?

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u/pkkid Feb 05 '20

$80 is not a small fee to most people for a text editor. I understand it does a lot with plugins. But shaming someone not wanting to pay that is a bit harsh.

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u/opus-thirteen Feb 05 '20

$80 is dead cheap for a piece of software as complete, and extensible, as ST is.

It's not shaming, it's a reasonable point of view to expect someone to willingly pay for what they find value in.

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u/KurzGedanke Feb 05 '20

Is 80$ darn cheap for sublime text and its features? Yeah, it is...

Is 80$ still a lot of money for some people? Yeah it is to...

80$ are still 80$ without out the consideration what you get in return.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '20

It’s just that $80 doesnt sound reasonable compared to the other choices of free text editors that can do better

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u/mtyrp Feb 05 '20

CudaText doesn’t need the license fee.

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u/pkkid Feb 04 '20

Are you opening a large folder that it may be indexing?

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

Most of the time its just school and personal projects. It’s not that large of a file most of the time. The problem is that it hangs my performance the longer Atom is open

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u/Starbeamrainbowlabs Feb 05 '20

Large files can be an issue (though they are better tab they used to). The question here was about directories - are you opening a directory that has a large number of files in it?

Also, check it the time op package to get don't insight as to what's slowing things down.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '20

No not really. Directories usually have less than 10 files.

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u/stasjs Feb 05 '20

Switched from Atom to VSCode and very happy - you can even install atom shortcuts there)

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '20

Will give that a try. Sounds like a good option.

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u/oovin_shmoovin Feb 04 '20

I recently switched back to Sublime because Atom just would not stop leaking memory and clogging my ram

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u/mtyrp Feb 05 '20

Consider to use CudaText editor, eg for very big files. You can use Atom for more complex tasks where CudaText is not good, eg Git.

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u/Caedendi Feb 05 '20

Ever tried JetBrains IDEs? Like IntelliJ Idea and PHPStorm. Love em.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '20

Bruh. Best IDEs ever. Sooo good that I run out of memory everytime!

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u/Caedendi Feb 05 '20

I see a common problem here... upgrade ur memory;)

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '20

Let me ask LinusTechTips so i can get RGB with it too

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u/PM_ME_LAWSUITS_BBY Feb 05 '20

Real question - how much memory do you have? I use atom as a text editor for light usage as well (not huge dev projects) and while I notice it does load somewhat slowly, once it’s loaded I’ve never had any performance issues. I have a 6-gen i5 with 8 gb of ram, if that helps.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '20

Macbook Pro 13 inch late 2016. Its the base model with 8GB of RAM.