Thanks for reporting this! What you're seeing is a UI interpretation issue, not flash exhaustion.

In the ESP-IDF Size view, Flash Code and Flash Data are section-size breakdowns from the firmware image (.text/.rodata), not fixed-capacity memory pools like IRAM/DRAM. Because of that, the current ...

Hello,

It could be a terminal specific issue https://github.com/espressif/vscode-esp-idf-extension/issues/6, we will check that.

However, esp-idf vscode extension offers " ESP-IDF: SDK Configuration Editor " command to launch the menuconfig, please check if that helps?

Screenshot 2026-06-29 at ...

Hello,

As this happens because it was switching from the build task to the size task terminal internally.

VSCode has inbuilt support for switching terminals.


Windows / Linux: Press Ctrl + PageUp (previous) or Ctrl + PageDown (next).
macOS: Press Cmd + Shift + ] (previous) or Cmd + Shift ...

Hello,

Could you confirm which version of Espressif-IDE and EIM you're using?

Most likely this would have fixed with this https://github.com/espressif/idf-im-ui/pull/834, so please update to the latest eim version and let us know how it goes?

Thanks!

Hello,

Could you please update to v4.3.0 and check whether you still encounter the same issue?

We've also updated the ESP-IDF installation mechanism in the IDEs to use EIM (ESP-IDF Installation Manager).

Thank you.

Espressif-IDE v4.3.0 released!

Espressif-IDE v4.3.0 brings ESP-IDF Kconfig 3.x support, improved ESP-IDF version and target detection, enhanced EIM integration and path discovery. The release also adds a new preference for configuring eim_idf.json, improves Windows support with installer and ...

Hello All,

We are pleased to announce the release of ESP-IDF Extension for VS Code v2.1.0 .

ESP-IDF Extension for VS Code v2.1.0 brings improvements to developer experience with better clangd handling, organized settings, and added ESP32-P4 PIE register support for debugging. It also refines EIM ...

Hello,

I was trying to reproduce this behaviour with the similar headers!

Build is fine - this is an IDE indexer (clangd) false error, not a real compile issue.

How to fix:
- update .clangd to avoid this false-positive escalation:

CompileFlags:
CompilationDatabase: build
Remove: [-m*, -f ...

Hello Community,

Pleased to announce Espressif-IDE v4.2.0 release.

Please check the release notes here: https://github.com/espressif/idf-eclips ... tag/v4.2.0

Thanks!

Hello,

The LSP Editor has inlay hints enabled by default. If you prefer not to use them, you can disable this feature by editing the .clangd file and adding InlayHints enabled status, please check below

https://docs.espressif.com/projects/espressif-ide/en/latest/additionalfeatures/lspeditor.html ...