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My biggest gripe about Teams is what a memory hog it is. Mine is currently sitting idle (been on vacation all week) at nearly 1GB. Compare this to Zoom, which i

My biggest gripe about Teams is what a memory hog it is. Mine is currently sitting idle (been on vacation all week) at nearly 1GB. Compare this to Zoom, which is idling at just over 100MB. Teams is literally taking up 10 times more RAM than Zoom just running in the background.

slaymaker1907 6y ago
Try disabling GPU acceleration. It seems to speed things up a lot for some reason.
DangerousPie 6y ago
I have never used Teams but is 1GB of memory usage really an issue in 2021, when most laptops have at least 16-32 gigs of memory? It's been years since the last time I actually worried about how much memory some software on my laptop was using.
- reaperducer 6y ago
  is 1GB of memory usage really an issue in 2021 It isn't if you're on a laptop from 2021. But that vast majority of people aren't. Companies don't provision new computers to their employees every time a new computer comes out. At the companies I've worked for, the minimum refresh time is 3-5 years, depending on tax laws, and financial ability. It's also not a big deal if the computer is only used for Zoom. Most people, whether office drones or developers, run many programs at once.
- mdaniel 6y ago
  In isolation, maybe not, but I don't get paid to have chat clients or screen share apps run, I get paid to add features or remove bugs from the bazillions of microservices and associated spa, which under ideal conditions requires running them locally. Every byte consumed by something useless is not a tradeoff I endorse. That "ram is cheap and plentiful" is also seriously not true for Mac laptops, which both caps how much one can expand them and also charges unreasonable rates for the additions they do allow
- ad404b8a372f2b9 6y ago
  Most laptops do not have 16-32gb of ram, even in the high-end range.
- HaggardFinical 6y ago
  "2021, when most laptops have at least 16-32 gigs of memory" Oh man, I'd love to live in the wonderland where you posted this comment from.
  - netflixandkill 6y ago
    I mean my laptop from 2014 had 32g (and like another 4g on the graphics processor) so that's not exactly outrageous for anyone doing serious work. My laptop from 2019 also had 32g and was less than 2000 usd. Obviously most people don't need that and I'm sympathetic to anyone having to run teams on some shitty IT-provided low cost laptop loaded with 7 different management spyware suites, but 16g-32g is not baller in a limo outrageous.
- PurpleFoxy 6y ago
  16gb is the standard high end spec, 32gb is the extreme edition which usually costs a fortune and is impossible to convince your company to buy, especially if multiple people need them. On 16GB I was constantly running out of memory at work. It’s not just 1GB it’s 1GB times all the other crap you need running.
twobitshifter 6y ago
In Microsoft’s defense Teams is an electron (or electronesque) app and offers quite a bit more than Zoom in terms of features. The fact that it uses so much RAM is expected when you consider it as another copy of chrome.
- _underfl0w_ 6y ago
  "Expected" != "Acceptable" though, IMHO.
- InitialLastName 6y ago
  It boggles me to no end that Microsoft is switching to electron apps even for Windows. You would think that they could write native applications that wouldn't sacrifice stability, performance or functionality the way Teams does for their own operating system.
- deleted 6y ago
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- anoncake 6y ago
  I don't see how that's a defense. MS choose to use Electron.

slaymaker1907 6y ago

Try disabling GPU acceleration. It seems to speed things up a lot for some reason.

DangerousPie 6y ago

I have never used Teams but is 1GB of memory usage really an issue in 2021, when most laptops have at least 16-32 gigs of memory? It's been years since the last time I actually worried about how much memory some software on my laptop was using.

reaperducer 6y ago
is 1GB of memory usage really an issue in 2021 It isn't if you're on a laptop from 2021. But that vast majority of people aren't. Companies don't provision new computers to their employees every time a new computer comes out. At the companies I've worked for, the minimum refresh time is 3-5 years, depending on tax laws, and financial ability. It's also not a big deal if the computer is only used for Zoom. Most people, whether office drones or developers, run many programs at once.
mdaniel 6y ago
In isolation, maybe not, but I don't get paid to have chat clients or screen share apps run, I get paid to add features or remove bugs from the bazillions of microservices and associated spa, which under ideal conditions requires running them locally. Every byte consumed by something useless is not a tradeoff I endorse. That "ram is cheap and plentiful" is also seriously not true for Mac laptops, which both caps how much one can expand them and also charges unreasonable rates for the additions they do allow
ad404b8a372f2b9 6y ago
Most laptops do not have 16-32gb of ram, even in the high-end range.
HaggardFinical 6y ago
"2021, when most laptops have at least 16-32 gigs of memory" Oh man, I'd love to live in the wonderland where you posted this comment from.
- netflixandkill 6y ago
  I mean my laptop from 2014 had 32g (and like another 4g on the graphics processor) so that's not exactly outrageous for anyone doing serious work. My laptop from 2019 also had 32g and was less than 2000 usd. Obviously most people don't need that and I'm sympathetic to anyone having to run teams on some shitty IT-provided low cost laptop loaded with 7 different management spyware suites, but 16g-32g is not baller in a limo outrageous.
PurpleFoxy 6y ago
16gb is the standard high end spec, 32gb is the extreme edition which usually costs a fortune and is impossible to convince your company to buy, especially if multiple people need them. On 16GB I was constantly running out of memory at work. It’s not just 1GB it’s 1GB times all the other crap you need running.

twobitshifter 6y ago

In Microsoft’s defense Teams is an electron (or electronesque) app and offers quite a bit more than Zoom in terms of features. The fact that it uses so much RAM is expected when you consider it as another copy of chrome.

_underfl0w_ 6y ago
"Expected" != "Acceptable" though, IMHO.
InitialLastName 6y ago
It boggles me to no end that Microsoft is switching to electron apps even for Windows. You would think that they could write native applications that wouldn't sacrifice stability, performance or functionality the way Teams does for their own operating system.
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anoncake 6y ago
I don't see how that's a defense. MS choose to use Electron.