Really high memory usage and then a crash with a lot of new files

[Monochrome-Sauce]

Description of the bug

When there are a lot of files, Sublime Text's memory usage starts to rise (it reached higher than in the attached picture) and it ends up crashing. When the crash happens, the inotify system limit is reached. The system has enough memory to keep operating.

Additional information: the files were added by a build system and appear in the .gitignore file.

Steps to reproduce

1. Start Sublime Text.
2. Generate thousands of build files for good measure.

Expected behavior

Not crash when many files get created, and to not use a dozen gigs of memory.

Actual behavior

Crash with high memory usage because of inotify limit.

Sublime Text build number

4175

Operating system & version

Fedora Kionite 40

(Linux) Desktop environment and/or window manager

KDE 6

Additional information

No response

OpenGL context information

No response

[BenjaminSchaaf]

Does it happen in safe mode?

[Monochrome-Sauce]

Yes, and even faster.

[Monochrome-Sauce]

It also happens on an Arch (Sway) machine with completely different hardware (same Sublime Text build)

[BenjaminSchaaf]

How many files are being created?

[Monochrome-Sauce]

My case has over 1000, but it also happens at ~600.

[Monochrome-Sauce]

Memory usage rose by hundreds of MiB for subl --safe-mode open over the weekend with much less files.

[BenjaminSchaaf]

Creating 100,000 files very quickly on my end locks up ST for a little bit, but memory usage goes up barely 100MB and the process goes back to idle afterwards. As such I really can't reproduce this issue.