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Gmail often uses over 1GB. Some google sheets do too after being open for some time. With 10 windows and a handful of tabs each, I'm close to using up 16GB of
by ikeboy 10y ago
Gmail often uses over 1GB. Some google sheets do too after being open for some time.
With 10 windows and a handful of tabs each, I'm close to using up 16GB of ram and sometimes run out.
- bitmapbrother 10y agoMy Gmail is at 240MB with Chrome 57 with 50 emails per page. With 100 emails it's 380MB.
- aninteger 10y agoHow much memory is it with mutt, or Alpine.. or let's be fair, Thunderbird?
- jacquesm 10y agoThunderbird with a huge mail archive open: 1.5 G total, 500 M resident.
- kalleboo 10y agoDoes Thunderbird mmap it's mail archive or something? Because 1.5 GB sounds insane. Apple's Mail.app is only using 130 MB for a 1.8 GB mailbox. Might be an unfair comparison if Mail.app is leaning on the system for indexing/search (then again mds+mds_stores is using around 200 MB)
- jcranmer 10y agoThe metadata database for open folders is entirely resident in memory.
- 1wd 10y agoMy mail box is currently 700 MB on disk and Thunderbird uses less than 100 MB of memory.
- ikeboy 10y agoI use priority inbox, so 100-150 emails a page. I keep a gmail always open, but even opening a new tab with gmail gets up to 750MB within a few seconds. I have a lot of extensions (40-50), latest ubuntu and chrome 56.
- bitmapbrother 10y agoI turn email grouping off so 50 emails per page is just that. However, with email grouping and a 100 emails per page I could see it ballooning to 1GB depending on the content. I just tried Edge and with 50 emails per page I'm seeing 398MB used by that process. Setting it to 100 emails increases it to 405MB.
- BorisMelnik 10y agoyea I was going to say, I know for a fact that I've never seen Gmail go above 500 Mb and I check multiple workstations throughout the day. Ours usually is around 2-300 mb most of the time. If it is 1GB...maybe there are some Gmail / Chrome extensions etc?
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- ikeboy 10y agoI use hangouts within gmail, could that be affecting it?
- BorisMelnik 10y agooh definitely, if it is within that tab then definitely yes. good call.
- blakesterz 10y agoI have gmail opened, about 500 megs.
- smkellat 10y agoIn contrast, I still end up using a dedicated client for such things whether on the phone or on the desktop. That still responds better than trying to handle such through the browser. Sylpheed works wonderful on the desktop and K-9 Mail on the phone. Of course, then again, I technically have multiple presences from Google's perspective as I'm technically a student at the moment too. The school's e-mail is handled by Google Apps. Handling that all through a client is easier than trying to flip between browser pages that I can't keep straight.
- scholia 10y ago> I still end up using a dedicated client for such things whether on the phone or on the desktop. Yes. That also lets you use multiple mailboxes with no extra overhead. Another option is to keep a separate browser for Google sites, and close it after scanning Gmail. That also helps you limit email to three or maybe four sessions per day, which means you can do real work without the mostly pointless interruptions.
- sogen 10y agoIf you think Gmail is horrible, InVision beats it by a wide margin, it uses almost 3 GB. And gobbles bandwidth like crazy.
- eridius 10y agoGoogle Docs is the absolute worst. Keeping one open for a couple of days starts sucking up multiple GB, even for relatively simple documents.
- scholia 10y agoAn amusing exercise is to compare running one document in Google Docs with running the three main applications from Microsoft Office. Even if you use blank documents, the contrast is striking.
- taeric 10y agoA blog exploring this with numbers would be interesting.
- scholia 10y agoAnd I would be happy to write it if I felt confident about some method of measuring memory use. I could use something like Process Explorer, but a dedicated utility would be handy, if you can think of one.
- taeric 10y agoI should have offered to help if there is anything you can think of to look into. For this, honestly I'd start with something simple. So, right off, no. A script that just periodically dumps whatever ps or friends could give would be a start. If you have a suggestion on what you'll try, I can run a similar experiment on some of my computers. Warning, I don't really have easy access to MS products. :(
- ardaozkal 10y agoI had firefox use 22gb of ram (mostly swap, as I don't really have 22gb of physical ram) a few days ago (had an image of it but unfortunately my host is currently down). I had around 50 tabs open but one specific memory leaking one was the offender. Browsers should really add checks for memory leaking pages.
- hashhar 10y agoThere is a dedicated team at Mozilla currently who only work on identifying memory leaks and usage. There's a mailing list too if you want to help or check in with the discussions. [1]: https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-memory https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-memory