Can somebody explain to me why the Slack app drains >3.5GBs of memory.
I am using the version 3.1.0 on 10.10.5 OSX.
Am I the only "lucky" user getting such a poor memory performance?
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?
#2A lot of digital ink was spent on this issue. Basically it is due to the fact that the Slack app uses Electron, and thus it is not much more than a Chromium browser with several loaded webpages.
Re: Ask HN: Why does Slack App on macOS drain 3GB of memory?
#3Am I the only "lucky" user getting such a poor memory performance?
No, that's very common. For most people Slack's usefulness outweighs it's poor memory footprint.
Re: Ask HN: Why does Slack App on macOS drain 3GB of memory?
#4104 MB at the moment. For me at least, Slack really got their shit together sometime last year and improved the issue significantly. I still remember having to restart Slack twice a day, but it ain't issue anymore.
Re: Ask HN: Why does Slack App on macOS drain 3GB of memory?
#5I don't use the app anymore and open it in my browser as a regular tab. Much much better.
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#6104 MB at the moment. For me at least, Slack really got their shit together sometime last year and improved the issue significantly. I still remember having to restart Slack twice a day, but it ain't issue anymore.
Yeah, mine is 122MB at the moment as displayed in the OS X Activity monitor.
Re: Ask HN: Why does Slack App on macOS drain 3GB of memory?
#7I 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.
Re: Ask HN: Why does Slack App on macOS drain 3GB of memory?
#8No, 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.
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#10104 MB at the moment. For me at least, Slack really got their shit together sometime last year and improved the issue significantly. I still remember having to restart Slack twice a day, but it ain't issue anymore.
Roughly 800MB for me at the moment. 95MB main process, 2 helpers at 50MB and 1 helper at 600MB.