Never seen this before
Ready API was consuming 2 gigs of RAM
and when I forcefully shut it down
I lost quite a bit of my work which was saved
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How much RAM does your machine have? I've noticed a lot that, for larger projects that have huge requests and/or responses possible that ReadyAPI can use a lot of memory. Have you adjusted the memory parts of the .vmoptions file yet? I have a 32gb machine and let ReadyAPI use up to 24gb. I don't run into this problem often, but it can still happen to me.
If you run into this still, another option I found was to develop my tests within the gui of ReadyAPI and then use the testrunner.bat/testrunner.sh file to run the tests headless. This consumes much less RAM.
Finally, I've learned a well place groovy script test step or assertion can help, that does the following:
System.gc();
This forces ReadyAPI to garbage collect.
