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Ask HN: Why does Slack App on macOS drain 3GB of memory?

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Re: Ask HN: Why does Slack App on macOS drain 3GB of memory?

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Post by znpy »

acd wrote: post #21

FreeBSD an entire operating system runs on about 100MB ram. https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/bsdinstall-hardware.htm...

CentOS 7 is roughly the same.

For a minimal install (with ssh service and vsftpd), i booted it and flushed the filesystem cache, then ram usage was about 88MB.

Re: Ask HN: Why does Slack App on macOS drain 3GB of memory?

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Post by znpy »

dijit wrote: post #8

No, that's the default slack experience if you have a lot of teams. I recommend: * Disabling emoji support, especially animated emojis> * Disabling auto-expanding of images (gifs are egregious) * Use compact display * Limit number of channels/groups you're in if possible, surely you don't need all those channels. Doing this curbed my resource usage quite a lot. I don't miss emoji's all that much.

I didn't even know all of those things were possible! Thank you!

Re: Ask HN: Why does Slack App on macOS drain 3GB of memory?

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Post by phereford »

enraged_camel wrote: post #13
reustle wrote: post #7

I get around this by using the web client daily (pinned tab in chrome) and open up the desktop app whenever I need to do specifically screen sharing (or just skype). It's not worth the resource headache.

Same. The web client has feature parity with the desktop client so I haven’t understood why people bother with the latter.

It does not have complete feature parity. One of the things missing, that is important for me and the team I am on, is the ability to share screens and allow for remote control in that session. That is a Mac App only right now, at least the last time I checked.

Re: Ask HN: Why does Slack App on macOS drain 3GB of memory?

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Post by stephenSinniah »

steeve wrote: post #5

I don't use the app anymore and open it in my browser as a regular tab. Much much better.

I have a MPB 2012 and I purchased a second hand ipad mini2 just so I could handle all my comms through it. Slack was the main culprit for that decision, my computer was basically unusable while running rails with guard + ember + chrome(pivotal tracker) + slack.

Re: Ask HN: Why does Slack App on macOS drain 3GB of memory?

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Post by matthewmacleod »

What I find interesting is that this is now becoming more noticed by other people. We've had a whole bunch of non-tech people at my company start complaining about Slack's sluggish performance, connection drops, the fact that it makes other things on their machine unusable, that kind of stuff.

I would like to think this means there will be a bit of a change going forward.

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