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Not sure what I'm missing here, but I see Signal using 37.5MB of memory. That doesn't seem egregious, but I'm also not familiar with what other Electron apps u
by maerek 9y ago
Not sure what I'm missing here, but I see Signal using 37.5MB of memory. That doesn't seem egregious, but I'm also not familiar with what other Electron apps use.
- mrmondo 9y agoI don't think you're looking at all the processes: A fresh launch without logging in or having it run for any period of time immediately uses 211.2MB: 1. Signal: 58.3MB 2. Signal Helper: 128.6MB 3. Signal Helper: 24.3MB After logging in and starting a few conversations I quickly see the total rise to over 350MB.
- jacobsenscott 9y agoMemory usage isn't well understood. If you are using Activity Monitor on OSX the memory tab doesn't tell you much. Double click the process and look at the "Real memory size". That's a much more accurate picture of the physical ram being used by the process. It is typically much less than what you see on the memory tab overview.
- mrmondo 9y agoIt is by me, that is the real memory usage, pretty shocking.
- xpaulbettsx 9y agotbh even that is inaccurate because Chromium uses shared memory heavily. The most real'est way to see is to note the total free memory, close the app, then subtract.