Title: Extremely high memory usage
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Extremely high memory usage

 *  [tomsel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomsel/)
 * (@tomsel)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extremely-high-memory-usage/)
 * I’ve been having problems with memory usage on my site, and have found the cause
   to be the Crayon plugin.
 * Disabling the plugin, the average memory usage is just under 40mb. With the plugin
   enabled, this rockets up to an average of 135mb and kills page load time.
 * Can you recommend anything to resolve this? It’s a great plugin and very useful,
   so would be a shame to have to look for something else.
 * Thanks,
 * Tom
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/crayon-syntax-highlighter/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/crayon-syntax-highlighter/)

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 *  [ankurj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ankurj/)
 * (@ankurj)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extremely-high-memory-usage/#post-3985501)
 * +1. I have the same issue with this plugin.
 * I ran a scan with P3 Plugin profiler and this plugin accounts for 77% of the 
   page load time which comes to 1.7975 sec.
 * I really like this plugin for what it does, I hope there should be a way to make
   it memory efficient.
 *  [s3mw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/s3mw/)
 * (@s3mw)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extremely-high-memory-usage/#post-3985526)
 * I’ve encountered the same thing. When I was looking for a code plugin I visited
   several sites using this one, and they all loaded very slow. You could watch 
   the crayon syntax highlighter load piece by piece at tmes.
 * I really like this plugin. I have three plugins on my site, and this is one of
   them. I’ve found if you do away with features it helps out quite a bit.
 * I never use the toolbar or the striped lines. Very rarely will i use the numbers.
   However, most of the code I post is one to three lines.
 * But like I said, turn off the toolbar and striped lines and you’ll see improvements.
   Keeping my style very simple even helps me.
 *  [cfsamet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cfsamet/)
 * (@cfsamet)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extremely-high-memory-usage/#post-3985550)
 * I’m disappointed to see no “official” response to the performance issues caused
   by Crayon, seeing as these posts are over a month old now. I’m finding the same
   thing – page load times went from 3-4 seconds to 9-10 seconds after installing
   Crayon.
 * Love it’s easy of use, and easy of adding code to a page… don’t love the poor
   performance. I guess I’ll have to keep trying out other solutions as well… ugh.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extremely-high-memory-usage/#post-3985550)
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