diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/activities/editor/BaseEditorActivity.kt b/app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/activities/editor/BaseEditorActivity.kt
index d1957709da..2e5886217f 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/activities/editor/BaseEditorActivity.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/activities/editor/BaseEditorActivity.kt
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ import com.itsaky.androidide.tasks.cancelIfActive
 import com.itsaky.androidide.tasks.mainThreadHandler
 import com.itsaky.androidide.ui.CodeEditorView
 import com.itsaky.androidide.ui.ContentTranslatingDrawerLayout
+import com.itsaky.androidide.ui.MemoryChartAxis
 import com.itsaky.androidide.ui.SwipeRevealLayout
 import com.itsaky.androidide.uidesigner.UIDesignerActivity
 import com.itsaky.androidide.utils.ActionMenuUtils.showPopupWindow
@@ -1021,14 +1022,7 @@ abstract class BaseEditorActivity :
 			setScaleEnabled(true)
 
 			axisLeft.isEnabled = false
-			axisRight.valueFormatter =
-				object :
-					IAxisValueFormatter {
-					override fun getFormattedValue(
-						value: Float,
-						axis: AxisBase?,
-					): String = "%dMB".format(value.roundToLong())
-				}
+			MemoryChartAxis.configure(axisRight)
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/ui/MemoryChartAxis.kt b/app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/ui/MemoryChartAxis.kt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0b6e07e708
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/ui/MemoryChartAxis.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+/*
+ *  This file is part of AndroidIDE.
+ *
+ *  AndroidIDE is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ *  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ *  (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ *  AndroidIDE is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ *  GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ *  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ *   along with AndroidIDE.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+
+package com.itsaky.androidide.ui
+
+import com.github.mikephil.charting.components.AxisBase
+import com.github.mikephil.charting.components.YAxis
+import com.github.mikephil.charting.formatter.IAxisValueFormatter
+import kotlin.math.roundToLong
+
+/**
+ * The memory chart's value axis: whole megabytes, never negative, never repeated (ADFA-5535).
+ *
+ * Extracted from the chart setup so the labels it produces can be tested. They could not be checked
+ * any other way: what MPAndroidChart prints depends on the range it picks for itself, which is only
+ * decided during a layout and a draw.
+ */
+object MemoryChartAxis {
+	/**
+	 * Formats whole megabytes.
+	 *
+	 * The rounding is why [configure] has to bound the interval. Left to itself, MPAndroidChart
+	 * picks a label interval from the data, and an all-zero chart -- every editor open, before the
+	 * first sample lands -- gave it a range of about -1MB to 1MB with six labels. Rounded to whole
+	 * megabytes those collapse onto three strings, each printed twice: "-1MB, -1MB, 0MB, 0MB, 1MB,
+	 * 1MB".
+	 */
+	private val FORMATTER =
+		object : IAxisValueFormatter {
+			override fun getFormattedValue(
+				value: Float,
+				axis: AxisBase?,
+			): String = "%dMB".format(value.roundToLong())
+		}
+
+	/**
+	 * A megabyte, the smallest interval the label text can tell apart.
+	 *
+	 * Granularity is a floor on the interval, not the interval itself, so this costs nothing on a
+	 * chart with real data -- a memory axis spanning hundreds of megabytes was never going to want
+	 * gridlines a megabyte apart. It only bites in the degenerate case it exists for.
+	 */
+	private const val MINIMUM_INTERVAL_MEGABYTES = 1f
+
+	fun configure(axis: YAxis) {
+		axis.valueFormatter = FORMATTER
+		// Memory is never negative, so the axis has no business going below zero -- which is also
+		// half of what made the duplicates readable as "-1MB" twice.
+		axis.axisMinimum = 0f
+		axis.granularity = MINIMUM_INTERVAL_MEGABYTES
+		axis.isGranularityEnabled = true
+	}
+}
diff --git a/app/src/test/java/com/itsaky/androidide/ui/MemoryChartAxisTest.kt b/app/src/test/java/com/itsaky/androidide/ui/MemoryChartAxisTest.kt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..13c2c0161f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/src/test/java/com/itsaky/androidide/ui/MemoryChartAxisTest.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+/*
+ *  This file is part of AndroidIDE.
+ *
+ *  AndroidIDE is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ *  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ *  (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ *  AndroidIDE is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ *  GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ *  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ *   along with AndroidIDE.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+
+package com.itsaky.androidide.ui
+
+import android.content.Context
+import android.graphics.Bitmap
+import android.graphics.Canvas
+import android.view.View
+import androidx.test.core.app.ApplicationProvider
+import com.github.mikephil.charting.data.Entry
+import com.github.mikephil.charting.data.LineData
+import com.github.mikephil.charting.data.LineDataSet
+import com.google.common.truth.Truth.assertThat
+import org.junit.Test
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith
+import org.robolectric.RobolectricTestRunner
+
+/**
+ * The labels the memory chart's value axis actually prints (ADFA-5535).
+ *
+ * Asserted on what MPAndroidChart computes rather than on the formatter alone, because the bug was
+ * never in the formatter: it was in the interval the library chose to hand it. That interval is
+ * decided during a layout and a draw, so the chart has to be laid out and drawn here.
+ */
+@RunWith(RobolectricTestRunner::class)
+class MemoryChartAxisTest {
+	private val context = ApplicationProvider.getApplicationContext<Context>()
+
+	private fun chartWith(megabytes: List<Float>): SafeLineChart {
+		val chart = SafeLineChart(context)
+		MemoryChartAxis.configure(chart.axisRight)
+		chart.axisLeft.isEnabled = false
+		chart.data =
+			LineData(LineDataSet(megabytes.mapIndexed { i, mb -> Entry(i.toFloat(), mb) }, "IDE"))
+		chart.notifyDataSetChanged()
+
+		chart.measure(
+			View.MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(WIDTH, View.MeasureSpec.EXACTLY),
+			View.MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(HEIGHT, View.MeasureSpec.EXACTLY),
+		)
+		chart.layout(0, 0, WIDTH, HEIGHT)
+		chart.draw(Canvas(Bitmap.createBitmap(WIDTH, HEIGHT, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888)))
+		return chart
+	}
+
+	private fun labelsOf(chart: SafeLineChart): List<String> {
+		val axis = chart.axisRight
+		return (0 until axis.mEntryCount).map { i -> axis.getFormattedLabel(i) }
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	fun `an all-zero chart prints no duplicate labels`() {
+		// Every editor open looks like this until the first sample lands, and so does the moment
+		// after the sampling rate changes, which clears the buffers.
+		val labels = labelsOf(chartWith(List(60) { 0f }))
+
+		assertThat(labels).isNotEmpty()
+		assertThat(labels).containsNoDuplicates()
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	fun `an all-zero chart prints no negative megabytes`() {
+		// The reported symptom was "-1MB, -1MB, 0MB, 0MB, 1MB, 1MB". Memory is never negative, so
+		// half of that was nonsense before it was even repeated.
+		val labels = labelsOf(chartWith(List(60) { 0f }))
+
+		labels.forEach { label -> assertThat(label).doesNotContain("-") }
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	fun `a chart with real readings still labels distinctly`() {
+		// Granularity is a floor on the interval, not the interval, so a chart spanning hundreds of
+		// megabytes is unaffected by it. If this ever fails, the floor has started to bite.
+		val labels = labelsOf(chartWith(listOf(120f, 480f, 733f, 906f, 512f)))
+
+		assertThat(labels).containsNoDuplicates()
+		assertThat(labels.size).isAtLeast(3)
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	fun `the labels are whole megabytes`() {
+		val labels = labelsOf(chartWith(listOf(120f, 480f, 733f)))
+
+		labels.forEach { label -> assertThat(label).matches("\\d+MB") }
+	}
+
+	private companion object {
+		const val WIDTH = 720
+		const val HEIGHT = 400
+	}
+}