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0 pointseverfree9y ago0 comments

Just curious: Are you running on a Raspberry Pi or other machine with constrained resources? 130MB is less than 4% of the memory in most modern computers, and less than 10% of most mid-range phones.

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Mithaldu9y ago

Just to be nice i'll assume you ask earnestly and answer earnestly: I have 16 GB of RAM. However i also always have more than one app running at any given time. In fact, my system usually has 200+ things running. I also don't mind if things use a lot of memory if: They either use it to give me a lot of bang for my buck, or are not long-running processes. Felony ticks neither of these boxes.

Also do keep in mind that the 130MB number is right after start without even logging in or using it at all. Due to memory usage by actual feature usage, and creep due to leaks, i can expect that number to easily double and more.

JimmyAustin9y ago

I'm not sure that the doubling guess is going to be accurate. The majority of that 130MB is going to be in the overhead of keeping a seperate copy of Chromium in memory, not in the implementation of current features.

LnxPrgr39y ago

My experience with Web browsers is they expand to fill all available memory and then some. This Firefox process has grown more than 50% since launch, and will stay mostly that big even if I close all but one new tab.

Chrome does a better job of containing the damage to individual tabs, but I'm not how much that really helps with something like this. And of course, eventually I still end up killing Chrome periodically to get RAM back for real work, like running VMs without the host thrashing.

everfreeOP9y ago

I didn't realize Felony was a long-running process. I thought you just open it when you want to process some messages, then close it when you're done.

LnxPrgr39y ago

Not the parent, but that stuff adds up when just about everything's written as if it owns the machine and the machine's guaranteed to be blatant overkill.

Disclaimer: it's not my only machine, but I'm posting from a Pi 3. 1GB RAM is roomy for most things that aren't Web browsers and apps that embed Web browsers.

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Mithaldu9y ago

JimmyAustin9y ago

LnxPrgr39y ago

everfreeOP9y ago

I didn't realize Felony was a long-running process. I thought you just open it when you want to process some messages, then close it when you're done.

LnxPrgr39y ago

Not the parent, but that stuff adds up when just about everything's written as if it owns the machine and the machine's guaranteed to be blatant overkill.

Disclaimer: it's not my only machine, but I'm posting from a Pi 3. 1GB RAM is roomy for most things that aren't Web browsers and apps that embed Web browsers.

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