Title: Rising memory usage
Last modified: May 23, 2025

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# Rising memory usage

 *  Resolved [gekomees](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gekomees/)
 * (@gekomees)
 * [1 year ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rising-memory-usage/)
 * After regenerating about 7000 images, the memory (RAM) usage has climbed through
   the roof and keeps climbing. Is it possible to fix inside this plugin or is it
   a problem on WP side? (WP 6.5)
 * > [View post on imgur.com](https://imgur.com/LtUDRaD)
    -  This topic was modified 1 year ago by [gekomees](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gekomees/).

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 *  Plugin Support [adamewww](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adamewww/)
 * (@adamewww)
 * [1 year ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rising-memory-usage/#post-18480961)
 * Hi [@gekomees](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gekomees/)
 * The process is single-threaded, it uses a single request per image, so it can’t“
   accumulate” memory like a long-running process might.
 * However, the OS might look like it uses up more memory if it doesn’t release 
   it right away. Linux, for example, often looks like it is using more memory than
   it actually is as it caches things in memory until it needs the memory for something
   else.
 * That having been said, any image optimization generally is going to take up a
   good amount of memory, especially with larger images. 2-4GB of memory is not 
   unheard of when it comes to image manipulation for very large images.

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