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Re:Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook by weberer on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @02:29AM (#30269957)
Maybe that person is comparing it to more traditional chat clients like Pidgin or Hexchat. Right now on my Manjaro desktop, Telegram is using 230mb of RAM, while Pidgin is taking 46mb. That being said, its a hell of a lot better than Slack, which could use up several gigabytes if you were in multiple groups.
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Re:Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook by konart on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @03:06AM (#30270183)
One should also check Telegram settings for media downloads\autoplay. This may change memory consumption drastically.
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Re:Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook by em-bee on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @03:14AM (#30270222)
on my desktop tg would routinely eat up to much memory so that i am now starting it with a script that sets a hard memory limit. haven't had a problem since.
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