# Bug: Memory leak at startup?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/bug-memory-leak-at-startup/96944
**Category:** VS Code
**Created:** [April 1, 2023, 11:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/bug-memory-leak-at-startup/96944 "2023-04-01T11:54:52Z")
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### Author: ![physh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@physh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/physh)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2023, 11:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/bug-memory-leak-at-startup/96944/1 "2023-04-01T11:54:52Z")

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Dear all,

since a few days, I have some problems with using the “Julia Language Pack” within VCCode.

Having the Extension enabled (Screenshot 1) starts to consume an unusual amount of memory. Moreover, it becomes impossible to run a script by clicking the small rightward-pointing arrow in the top right of the heading line, which usually executes the current script in the current REPL.

Disabling the Extension (including restarting VSC in order to make sure it really is diabled) leads to no such problem (Screenshot 2).

Without the extension, I can however use Julia normally when starting just from the command line (Screenshot 3). I have now been using VSCode and Julia like this, however the convenient One-Mouse-Button start of a script was quite convenient for debugging. Moreover, I really miss the plotting window, which stored all previous plots within a session and which hence made analysis very comfortable by being able to jump between several plots.

I tried already uninstalling and reinstallaing the extension to no success. Also switching to the pre-release version did not solve the problem.  
Anyone else has this issue?

Best regards.

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