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0 pointsuserbinator6y ago0 comments

You've likely not experienced the amazing monstrosity that is Microsoft Teams:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/teams...

There's a screenshot in there showing it taking 22GB of RAM. I've personally never seen it go that high, but the 10-12GB of RAM that I have seen is absolutely ludicrous for a chat app. Even when it's initially started it takes over 600MB. Combine that with a few VMs that also need a few GB of RAM each, as well as another equally-bloated Electron app or two, and you can quickly get into the swapping zone.

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syockit6y ago· 1 in thread

I also experience the same thing with Mattermost (the client also being an Electron app). The memory bloat usually comes from switching back and forth from so many channels, scrolling up to load more chat history, and lots and lots of image attachments (and of course, the emoticons).

userbinatorOP6y ago

scrolling up to load more chat history, and lots and lots of image attachments (and of course, the emoticons).

I remember comfortably browsing webpages with lots of large images and animated GIFs in the early 2000s, with a fraction of the computing power I have today. Something has become seriously inefficient with browser-based apps.

smabie6y ago

How is that possible, 22GB? Fucking electron. You would think, at least, that Microsoft would code a fucking real desktop app.. I hate web browsers.

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