Comment by tabbott
11 years ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10280246.
Historically most users were using the single cloud installation at zulip.com, and so having this significant fixed memory overhead wasn't a problem.
I expect someone will do the work the fix this before long; it shouldn't be hard.
Thanks for the explanation! I take it that the open sourced zulip is very close to what zulip.com runs, then?
Yes, it's in fact exactly what's running on zulip.com.
puppet/zulip_internal in the server repo even has the zulip.com puppet configuration (sans secrets).