Comment by wink
1 day ago
Look at every single discussion about Electron ;)
"It's a basic tool that sits hidden in my tray 99.9% of the time and it should not use 500MB of memory when it's not doing anything" is part of product quality.
1 day ago
Look at every single discussion about Electron ;)
"It's a basic tool that sits hidden in my tray 99.9% of the time and it should not use 500MB of memory when it's not doing anything" is part of product quality.
Only 500MB? Now you're being charitable.
Electron adds about 500MB to your memory requirements. If your software uses 2GB like Teams, the rest is on you.
Poorly-chosen environments also apply a multiplier to actual application memory.
Pointer-oriented languages as a rule give a 2x memory-size multiplier to everything, though higher is possible depending on how dynamic they are.
I suspect that the DOM and JS runtimes add a significant multiplier to the UI memory cost.
Sounds like schooling your even drunker mate 8 pints deep into a weekend bender.
Using 500MB of memory while not doing anything isn’t really a problem. If RAM is scarce then it will get paged out and used by another app that is doing something.
Borg3 slaps foldr with a spinning rust.
And now more seriously ;) Swapping aint fun. Sure, if it needs to happen, its better that out of memory error or crash, but still. Its not excuse to baloon everything..
And here, is my memory stats, while writing reply:
Commit: 288.13M (1%); Free Memory: 15.43G (96%)
Swapping is perfectly fine for the case where an app that has remained unused for a significant period of time starts being used again. It may even be faster than having the app manually release all of the memory it’s allocated and then manually reallocating it all again on user input (which is presumably what the alternative would be, if the complaint is only about the app’s memory usage when in an inactive state).
Free RAM is just RAM that’s doing nothing useful. Better to fill it with cached application states until you run out.
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I consider it a problem on my system and I will refuse to use your app if you disrespect my resources that way.