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How many Chrome tabs? Which Electron Apps? I don't use Chrome, and I specifically avoid Electron apps. My daily machine is a 2011 (YES, 7 years old) MBP 17". I
by stephenr 8y ago
How many Chrome tabs? Which Electron Apps?
I don't use Chrome, and I specifically avoid Electron apps. My daily machine is a 2011 (YES, 7 years old) MBP 17". It has a quad core i7 @ 2.4GHz and 16GB RAM. My regular work environment is IDEA Ultimate, a Java IDE which uses a good chunk of memory and taxes the CPU quite heavily when indexing source files and Vagrant, so at least one and often multiple Linux VMs, with anywhere from 1 to 2 GB of memory dedicated to each.
Even with that, the OS doesn't really freeze.
- stanfieldecho 8y agoI use on average maybe 8 chrome tabs at a given time and I use: Visual Studio Code, Spotify, Slack, Insomnia, and Skype. I also have Docker turned on all day.
- stephenr 8y agoSlack in particular is a pig with resources, and it's exacerbated if you're in multiple teams apparently. Try having Activity Monitor running with the memory tab active and keep an eye on what's using the most, and also the overview at the bottom.