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Marc Clifton wrote: now it uses a meager 2GB.
That's because you restarted the background logging of your activities, navigation, music listening,... by closing the browser. 
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Apparently, their latest and "greatest" (yeah, just kidding, Slack sucks big time) takes a bit less memory (roughly 350Mb).
Still, it's pathetic - and for a messaging app, the only thing I love about it is the ability to scroll using PgUp/PgDn while in the "Message" editbox - which sadly, Skype doesn't have even now.
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John
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Marc Clifton wrote: What in gods green earth would require Slack to consume 1/2 Gig of RAM?
Marc Clifton wrote: And don't even get me started on Chrome.
Slack is Chrome... At least, it's built as a Javascript app on Electron, which uses Chromium as its display engine...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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Stuart Dootson wrote:
Slack is Chrome... At least, it's built as a Javascript app on Electron, which uses Chromium as its display engine...
And therein lies the problem.
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Your point is valid, and it sure is a problem that kids of today never learned the RAM equivalent of the big-O of algorithms
Yet it is easy to be misled by too quick observations. If you map a 2 GByte file into RAM, you haveessentially set up 500K page table entries, without bringing any of it into physical RAM. In many cases, just a tiny little fraction of it will ever get into RAM before the application terminates. Checking my RAM use right now, there is slightly above 6 GB "In use", green color in the resource monitor, which means that is any process needs RAM, nothing needs to be paged out - the other process can take over those pages without any fuzz. A mere 35 MB is currently "Modified" and needs to be saved to backing storage before another process takes over. 1.9 MB is in "Standby" - the last user of those pages are no longer using them, but they are frequently used segments, so chances are that another process soon may ask for (parts of) it to be "loaded", which is a null operation of the pages are still in memory.
Of course there are cases of software that really needs huge amounts of data space - FEM and huge matrix models (read: weather forecasting) are the classical ones. I am currently testing out Coverity (a code analysis tool) that builds a complete flow graph of a million lines of source code; that fills some space.
And then there are those that really shouldn't need more than a handful of MB, but requires a few hundred. Or a couple GB. Yet, if it requires a GB during startup, and then that memory is paged out (which is a null operation for code segments), leaving a working set of a dozen MB for continued running, it won't slow down your other programs very much.
Only if it actually addresses RAM "all over the place", continously maintaining a huge working set, is there something to worry about. Some programs are that way. But lots of users are screaming out because they see huge numbers, without understanding what the numbers represent.
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Marc Clifton wrote: 17 tabs and almost 5GB. Close Chrome, restart with exactly the same 17 tabs, and now it uses a meager 2GB.
Don't necessarily blame Chrome for that one. I worked on a project a few years ago, a "web designer" had built the front end and I was supposed to make the back-end work. The page loaded fine (apart from the 20 or so errors thrown up in the console, that the "designer" had never looked at); but it then used about 1Mb every 5 seconds until Chrome crashed or Windows ground to a total halt. Never did find exactly what the issue was, but thinning out the 200+ stylesheets and script references made a big difference. Recoded the script to just use JQuery plus about 100 lines of custom code and all was well.
A lot of websites seem to be built by designers just throwing in every possible framework and widget because they can't be bothered to style something by hand and don't know how to do even basic scripting.
Sorry - inadvertently entered rant mode there...
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Just try implementing ISlackFactoryDefaultAttachmentConnectionCreatorFactoryMetaEnumeratorFactoryInstantiator without using 0.5GB of RAM.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Speaking of memory usage and Chrome, and maybe it is just me. Open several of your favorite websites in separate tabs in Firefox. Then open Chrome (you shouldn't have to do much, maybe go to Google with one tab). Sit back and watch the fun in Task Manager.
MOST times on my PC BOTH Firefox and Chrome go off into Not Responding and eating up CPU cycles. Looking at the processes tab, Chrome has a bunch running even though it only has one tab open. Kind of like Chrome has knocked Firefox over in some alley and is rifling through the pockets.
Now close Chrome and Firefox is happy again.
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"Write software today that will run on the computers of tomorrow".
There's an upgrade in your future.
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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Marc Clifton wrote: WTF? On a 16GB machine, I had 90% memory utilization
Time to add some more memory? Looks to be about $100 for another 16gb.
Or go back to the good ol' days when real men knew how to program in bytes and only needed 16k to do everything that anyone could ever possibly want to do.
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Is a mandate two guys watching football?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You folks in the Lounge, are you manual?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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No, he's over there, with José.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Don't mention the war!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I did once, but I think I got away with it.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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He writes all the documentation- after all its manual labor.
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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only for a soccer.
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Mandrake - someone who is half man, half duck
Mantilla - a bloke who controls a boat
Manila - a bloke who's more poorly than the one before
Manhattan - a bloke wearing a stetson
Mandrill - let's not go there!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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A couple of considerations may include if they'll get there by gay'm time and who'd they'd watch if 'foot' didn't show.
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I was trying to search & download these for audacity @ Windows.
I'm not sure if I'm the only one lost in the maze. I couldn't find one reliable site that provides these. The re-direction game keeps happening on multiple levels. 
And the site that says I can download, looks very much like those evil-warezz site.
Hope these are free libraries.
Or try this if you can![^] 
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Audacity is an Adobe product. Pay money$ and $mile. (Something very similar used to be open source some 10 years ago, but that has vanished.)
My bad. I was thinking of Adobe audition.
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THX. Edit above.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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LAME MP3 Encoder[^] ?
it's the official site, not one of those (for the last few years) scam dll-files.com/driver.com
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Even 1 or 2 years ago I was trying to get the audacity extension or whatever you need and I remember landing on the sourceforge site and thinking, "Seriously!?! sourceforge is dead and taken over! Why on sourceforge?"
Unsure why they haven't moved it somewhere a bit more modern.
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