Gradle Daemon doesn't start properly and fills up the whole memory

Question

A while ago, I noticed that If I leave my pc open for a bit (Until the gradle daemon terminates timeouts), IntelliJ keeps trying to start a new instance of Gradle. Thus, I have to restart my whole machine..

Getting Spammed With this:-

Last gradle process just crashes with the error: Address already in use: Cannot bind.

And now gradle is all over my pc:-

Answer 1

Check your network configuration. Such an issue usually occurs when there is firewall/antivirus or sometimes VPN connection may re-configure the network setup on machine. See case 1 and case 2.