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Not true. Slack does not take 32GB of RAM to be usable, more likely the rest of his tools take 30GB of RAM. My laptop only has 8GB of RAM and I have Chrome and
by freehunter 9y ago
Not true. Slack does not take 32GB of RAM to be usable, more likely the rest of his tools take 30GB of RAM. My laptop only has 8GB of RAM and I have Chrome and Firefox open and active while using Slack. Slack has been open for a couple of weeks and is using less than 500mb of RAM on my machine.
- jchw 9y agoThis is correct- my daily environment usually involves multiple VMs and a Docker Compose setup, either a JetBrains IDE or Visual Studio Code, Chrome with some reasonable number of tabs open, Slack, and a few utilities. To further illustrate the reason why this sounds insane, before I was at 32GB, I was at 8GB, and conserved RAM by running Linux with an extremely lean setup (i3 + st + Chrome.) Now I have plenty to spare, and I'm using a much more rich environment. So yeah, it is a little more complicated than just "Slack needed 32GB" - in fact, and thankfully, even my whole stack fits comfortably. It's what I upgraded from that it didn't work well on.