Android studio consuming a lot of RAM? do this to revamp
'm currently running Android Studio on Windows 8.1 machine with 6 gigs of RAM. I found that disabling VCS in android studio and using an external program to handle VCS helped a lot. You can disable VCS by going to File -> Settings -> Plugins and disable the following: CVS Integration Git Integration GitHub Google Cloud Testing Google Cloud Tools Core Google Cloud Tools for Android Studio hg4idea Subversion Integration Mercurial Integration TestNG-J