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		com2kid on July 27, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Where’s all my CPU and memory gone? The answer: Sl... Windows 10. My browsers are consuming ~4GB of memory right now. The Slack app is taking up 130MB, currently signed in to two teams. To be fair, Outlook, which manages 3+GB of Email, is only taking 60MB, so old school does win out.

eightysixfour on July 27, 2017 [–]

Slack starts a V8 instance for every team you sign into. It is absurd on my W10 machine.

Running it on Edge is significantly better on battery life and it feels snappier.

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