title: How to identify what causes Visual Studio to use to much memory?
body: <p>we are using Visual Studio 2013 with latest updates installed. Our solution(s) contains about 20 to 30 C# library and asp.net projects. We also have some extensions installed such as Resharper, VSCommands and NCrunch (all latest versions as well).</p>
  
  <p>After working a couple of minutes on a solution the memory of Visual studio increases to more than 2GB of RAM. The IDE is becoming very unresponsive. </p>
  
  <p>Usually i have to close a solution after working with it after 1 or 2 hours.</p>
  
  <p>When not closing VS myself the RAM usage goes up to 3GB+ and VS crashes (probably because VS is still a 32bit application)</p>
  
  <p>How can i identify what causes Visual Studio to use so much memory?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>
  
  <p>(I realized that ncrunch is also using a lot of RAM when executing our tests. Therefor i have disabled it. It takes a couple of minutes longer for VS to use so much ram when ncrunch is disabled but the problem remains)</p>