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I've never experienced this very common criticism of slack on here. When I occasionally check, Slack is using around 500mb or RAM. A lot for a chat app? Sure. B
by pgm8705 7y ago
I've never experienced this very common criticism of slack on here. When I occasionally check, Slack is using around 500mb or RAM. A lot for a chat app? Sure. But it has little to no affect on either my 16gb or 8gb machines.
- kortilla 7y agoRAM alone isn’t the problem. The issue is that is so laggy and slow. Poor algorithms on 500mb of bad data structures can bring any modern machine to its knees.
- ElFitz 7y agoI'm usually at 500mb... per workspace. And the loading times when switching workspaces / channels are just stupid. Ended deleting the desktop client.
- trymas 7y agoIt's 500MB RAM per tab/login/workspace (whatever it's called). Office/company slack, project A slack, project B slack, ... and in no time slack starts to use more RAM than docker/VMs I am developing on.
- welly 7y agoSlack is using 89mb here. I never notice it running, personally.
- jodrellblank 7y agoJust reloaded the Slack tab in Firefox to clear down 1GB of RAM use. As I do every day. Every single day. For the one single channel I join. with no PMs and no threads, no file transfers, no voice or video anything. Maybe I wouldn't mind so much if it was astonishingly good. But it isn't. It isn't even basically competent, it's terrible. Terrible at scrolling back, terrible at editing previous lines, appalling at completing names properly, bad at search, and completely lacking at customizing when it displays 2MB animated gifs inline. I would expect a 4Gb machine would mean I never have to check on a text chat client. Apparently not.