For the last couple of weeks, I have found that my June CTP install of Whidbey has been performing so badly that I just can't continue to develop with it. Memory and CPU usage was peaking, it was taking 15 seconds to take each debug step and the IDE didn't even shut down anymore, but decided instead that it would take up all the system resources and just hang around.
This has been disappointing as it was a nightmare to install the June CTP in the first place and I wasn't looking forward to the same pain with the July CTP. After another set of crashes and poor performance, I restarted the IDE. What I noticed was the Refactor addin in the splash screen. Maybe, just maybe that is the cause of all my pain.
I uninstalled Refactor and now the June CTP is sweet again. Pity I didn't think of this a couple of weeks ago.
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