High RAM consumption
My Visual Studio 2015 when I use to debug a c # MVC web project is with the following RAM consumption:
Is this consumption normal? My computer gets very slow when I have to test some modification on a page.
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Just that? I would say it is little. Visual Studio, as all powerful IDEs are memory-eaters, there is probably no desktop application that uses as much memory. To use well recommend 16GB of RAM and a good SSD.
In some cases extensions may be causing overconsumption. Resharper is great,but it devours resources if it's all on.
Of course the problem may be another. The question does not give clear indications that VS is the problem. An antivirus may be impacting everything VS does. This is common. There may be another problem in another component that only appears when VS is active. If I open a lot of stuff even with VS using little memory it might start doing swap Like Crazy.
Just to complement @Maniero, you can rest assured, yours is still low. I opened a small project here and put to run (I'm not debugging ), and already over 300 MB
Thousands (maybe millions) of developers use Visual Studio every day professionally. Slowness is not a common complaint.
If debugging is slow for you, the most likely causes are:
Your machine is obsolete. Unfortunately we do not always have the physical resources we would like.
Your page code is slow. 270 Megabytes of memory consumption, in 2017, is little. Even the browser you use to access the Stack Overflow should consume more than that. Slowness is not always lack of memory - it can also be one or more algorithms in need of optimizations. Or it may be that what the page needs to do is something that really takes even.
Your Page accesses a resource for which latency is high. This can happen if you access a database on another machine and the ping is high.
The computer is busy with other things. See the tab "Performance"/ "performance" of the task manager. If the disk is at 100%, this is the real cause of slowness. Tip: If in the Details tab you find a "telemetry"program from Microsoft, close. In the last two years this has been a headache for a lot of people, because they leave their record at 100% for hours.