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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

by 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.

by V-2 8y ago

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.