Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client
by muszc-master on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @05:38AM
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Most of this comes from overhead in Chromium, which currently (the version used by Ivelope) suffers from a few bugs which increases memory usage. I think this will drastically go down as time progresses and new updates of Chromium becomes available
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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client
by wcarss on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @07:34AM
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not intended to be a hostile ask here, but do you know any specific bugs to check out?
As a past (very minor) contributor to chromium+webkit I'm curious if there's anything one can do to help, but I haven't kept up with their status in a long time.
Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client
by muszc-master on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @07:44AM
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Specifically the image bug, as another commenter linked to: http://seenaburns.com/debugging-electron-memory-usage/
Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client
by opencl on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @10:35AM
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Is this even considered a bug by the Chromium team (i.e. is there any indication of plans to fix it, or is this just the image cache working as intended)?
It's a 10 year old project and memory usage has always been fairly high, I don't see any indication of a major focus on reducing it anytime soon.
I don't hate Electron apps or anything, but the ones I already have open are using up enough of my memory that there isn't much left to run more of them. I really do hope this improves in the future though. If not I may just have to buy more RAM.