<p dir="auto">Hi,</p>
<p dir="auto">For the past few months, atom has become extremely slow and after searching for the causes, it was found that processes named <em>Atom Helper</em> goes into the state of <em>Not Responding</em> after few minutes of starting the editor. These processes consume more than 200 MB of memory and affects the overall Mac's performance.</p>
<p dir="auto"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/6317330/6571864/fae13d2e-c732-11e4-8b63-7981eca1bd8b.png"><img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/6317330/6571864/fae13d2e-c732-11e4-8b63-7981eca1bd8b.png" alt="screen shot 2015-03-10 at 2 36 13 pm" style="max-width: 100%;"></a></p>
<p dir="auto">How can this be eliminated?</p>
<p dir="auto">If this continues that probably I would be forced to replace atom with some other editor.</p>
<p dir="auto">Looking at activity monitor, I always get a <code class="notranslate">Atom Helper (Not Responding)</code>, even if I start atom in safe mode.</p>
<p dir="auto">I'm on OSX mavericks and atom 0.138.0. I noticed this at least a few versions back too.</p>
<p dir="auto"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/253936/4739097/05bb3504-5a02-11e4-9216-54f719241018.png"><img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/253936/4739097/05bb3504-5a02-11e4-9216-54f719241018.png" alt="screen shot 2014-10-21 at 10 08 40 am" style="max-width: 100%;"></a></p>