# Anki causing high RAM usage (v2.1.41) **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [March 8, 2021, 10:41pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-causing-high-ram-usage-v2-1-41/8132 "2021-03-08T22:41:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![kleinerpirat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/kleinerpirat/32/19863_2.png) [@kleinerpirat](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/kleinerpirat)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2021, 12:32am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-causing-high-ram-usage-v2-1-41/8132/8 "2021-03-09T00:32:36Z")
I believe I have been experiencing this issue since I first used Anki (Windows). For half a year at least. I regularly need to restart Anki to get the memory usage down. It is quite crippling… @prollo did a great bug report during the 2.1.36 beta phase: > [@Anki 2.1.36 Beta](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-2-1-36-beta/3893/33): > > Hi, not sure if this is really an issue, but I wanted to report it nevertheless. I noticed that the webviews used in Anki’s interface constantly eat RAM, in small steps, that is only released the webview is destroyed. I don’t really know if that is expected behaviour? The issue is on all webviews as far as I can tell. RAM usage steadily increases as soon as the mouse is moved (!), and stops increasing if the mouse is idle. In the Add dialog, I could not observe the memory being freed at some p… Dae said it seems like a bug on Qt’s side, not Anki’s. It doesn’t seem to have been resolved though. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-causing-high-ram-usage-v2-1-41/8132)._