topic Re: Why Does Azure Databricks Consume So Much Memory When Running in the Background? in Data Engineering

Why Does Azure Databricks Consume So Much Memory When Running in the Background?

orcation — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 05:56:12 GMT

I had two Azure Databricks pages open in my browser without performing any computations. When I returned from lunch, I noticed that they were occupying about 80% of the memory in the task manager. What happened? This issue never occurred in the past, but recently, the performance has become increasingly sluggish.

Re: Why Does Azure Databricks Consume So Much Memory When Running in the Background?

szymon_dybczak — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 09:04:08 GMT

Hi @orcation ,

Product team is aware of this issue. Ticket has been raised - we just need to wait for a fix 🙂

Who Asked for This? Databricks UI is a Laggy Mess : r/databricks

Re: Why Does Azure Databricks Consume So Much Memory When Running in the Background?

orcation — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 10:41:32 GMT

Thank you for the update! I appreciate the transparency. I'll keep an eye out for the fix.

Re: Why Does Azure Databricks Consume So Much Memory When Running in the Background?

dj4 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:01:44 GMT

@szymon_dybczak This issue still exists and is getting worse. Even a 32GB memory & ultra 7 processor laptop cannot seem to handle this issue if there are many cells in the notebook. Do you know when it'll be fixed?