Christoph Stuber
Christoph Stuber
The example workspace would be our ISV solution, which I cannot make public for obvious reasons. But opening the Base Application source does basically the same thing. 
From my observation, it's everything that has to do with syntax highlighting, navigation and code actions. - Opening a new .al file - Go to definition - Find references -...
Indeed, compiling the app will increase the RAM usage even more for a short time, but once it's done it goes down to ~1GB for the language server and ~2.5GB...
In some cases, the only solution is to close all VS Code windows and to make sure the language server is no longer running.
@matthias-planzer I agree with you. The phenomenon I'm often encountering is the compiler not noticing changes in files. I type code and at some point, it just stops processing the...