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The problem with Evernote (and most of desktop apps) is that, it requires a bunch of RAM and CPU usage to use it. (Can relate with Slack desktop app, or Github

The problem with Evernote (and most of desktop apps) is that, it requires a bunch of RAM and CPU usage to use it. (Can relate with Slack desktop app, or Github desktop app). Just like user/customer could blame your web app if it starts too slow. The same applies to desktop apps, too.

chrisseaton 8y ago
A bunch of RAM and CPU compared to what? A website?
- revskill 8y ago
  I don't compare to anything. The point here is, it requires my RAM and CPU usage. Just like, i prefer using Google Docs cloud to opening an Excel document on my computer. In my case, open/close a web app on a new tab is much much faster than openning an Excel file. It's the point. And they're different.
  - chrisseaton 8y ago
    Well every single application or website you could run requires RAM and CPU. If you're not comparing to anything then you're complaining that it uses any RAM and CPU? That's not a reasonable thing to say is a problem. Why do you have RAM and CPU if you don't want to use them at all?
    - revskill 8y ago
      Maybe, my computer is slow, maybe for another reason i don't know. But openning a google docs file on my Chrome is much faster than openning a local Excel file. Maybe in your case it's different. That's my experience with most of desktop apps. The only exception, is VSCode and iTerm2. Can't live without them.
      - chrisseaton 8y ago
        > I don't compare to anything > is much faster than If your key point is 'it requires my RAM and CPU usage' then you're going to be disappointed to learn that a website also requires your RAM and CPU usage.
        revskill 8y ago
        I don't compare RAM & CPU usage (per your previous comment). "Faster" means speed.
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V-2 8y ago
I don't know. I've it open all day, I'm editing plenty of notes because I'm preparing a seminar... it consumes 44.1 MB of memory right now, I just looked it up (running W10). Slack, totally idle, oscilates between 225-250 MB for some reason - now this I agree is a resource hog. What is your reference scale?
- WaltPurvis 8y ago
  On my Mac it's using 708MB of memory and the CPU, which should be <1% since it's in the background and presumably not doing anything, bounces around constantly but is almost always in the 20%-30% range, which makes Evernote a ridiculous battery wasting abomination. The memory use also grows for no reason. I have caught it consuming 20GB+ after a day or two. There's obviously an egregious memory leak and that's been true for at least a year; I can only conclude that Evernote is a crap company that doesn't care at all about bugs, even critical ones. I have taken to only running Evernote on my desktop when I absolutely have to, and I try to remember to quit it so it doesn't gobble CPU and RAM, but sometimes I forget.
  - V-2 8y ago
    Intrigued, I checked again. It's at 21.5 MB now. I wonder to what extent is the difference caused by platform implementation (Mac vs. Win), and to what extent by the content (admittedly my notes aren't media-heavy).
    - WaltPurvis 8y ago
      I just checked again. After 4 hours of sitting idle in the background with its window minimized, Evernote is now using 901MB of memory, up almost 200MB. And it's not really "idle": it was using 34.1% CPU when I just checked. For what??? I do have a lot of notes, like 20,000, and many of them are HTML pages, but I don't have any huge graphics or videos or anything. Even if I did, I can't imagine why it would need so much RAM to just display a list of note titles, or why it would constantly be using between 5 and 40% of a CPU, or why the RAM usage would constantly creep up. It's just really terrible software. It galls me that I'm paying $7.99/month for this crap, and I would instantly pay that much or more for an alternative that worked properly.

chrisseaton 8y ago

A bunch of RAM and CPU compared to what? A website?

revskill 8y ago
I don't compare to anything. The point here is, it requires my RAM and CPU usage. Just like, i prefer using Google Docs cloud to opening an Excel document on my computer. In my case, open/close a web app on a new tab is much much faster than openning an Excel file. It's the point. And they're different.
- chrisseaton 8y ago
  Well every single application or website you could run requires RAM and CPU. If you're not comparing to anything then you're complaining that it uses any RAM and CPU? That's not a reasonable thing to say is a problem. Why do you have RAM and CPU if you don't want to use them at all?
  - revskill 8y ago
    Maybe, my computer is slow, maybe for another reason i don't know. But openning a google docs file on my Chrome is much faster than openning a local Excel file. Maybe in your case it's different. That's my experience with most of desktop apps. The only exception, is VSCode and iTerm2. Can't live without them.
    - chrisseaton 8y ago
      > I don't compare to anything > is much faster than If your key point is 'it requires my RAM and CPU usage' then you're going to be disappointed to learn that a website also requires your RAM and CPU usage.
      - revskill 8y ago
        I don't compare RAM & CPU usage (per your previous comment). "Faster" means speed.
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V-2 8y ago

I don't know. I've it open all day, I'm editing plenty of notes because I'm preparing a seminar... it consumes 44.1 MB of memory right now, I just looked it up (running W10). Slack, totally idle, oscilates between 225-250 MB for some reason - now this I agree is a resource hog. What is your reference scale?

WaltPurvis 8y ago
On my Mac it's using 708MB of memory and the CPU, which should be <1% since it's in the background and presumably not doing anything, bounces around constantly but is almost always in the 20%-30% range, which makes Evernote a ridiculous battery wasting abomination. The memory use also grows for no reason. I have caught it consuming 20GB+ after a day or two. There's obviously an egregious memory leak and that's been true for at least a year; I can only conclude that Evernote is a crap company that doesn't care at all about bugs, even critical ones. I have taken to only running Evernote on my desktop when I absolutely have to, and I try to remember to quit it so it doesn't gobble CPU and RAM, but sometimes I forget.
- V-2 8y ago
  Intrigued, I checked again. It's at 21.5 MB now. I wonder to what extent is the difference caused by platform implementation (Mac vs. Win), and to what extent by the content (admittedly my notes aren't media-heavy).
  - WaltPurvis 8y ago
    I just checked again. After 4 hours of sitting idle in the background with its window minimized, Evernote is now using 901MB of memory, up almost 200MB. And it's not really "idle": it was using 34.1% CPU when I just checked. For what??? I do have a lot of notes, like 20,000, and many of them are HTML pages, but I don't have any huge graphics or videos or anything. Even if I did, I can't imagine why it would need so much RAM to just display a list of note titles, or why it would constantly be using between 5 and 40% of a CPU, or why the RAM usage would constantly creep up. It's just really terrible software. It galls me that I'm paying $7.99/month for this crap, and I would instantly pay that much or more for an alternative that worked properly.