Franz: Memory comsumption and process opened

Created on 18 Oct 2017 · 12Comments · Source: meetfranz/franz

I'm trying to understand why Franz needs to open so many processes in Windows to run and why do they consume so much memory?
Attached is a screenshot of my configuration for 5 services used.

Expected Behavior

6 processes open at the max. 1 for Franz and 1 per service would make sense

Current Behavior

18 processes opened. 13 of them used by Franz, 1 per service x 5

Screenshots (if appropriate):

2017-10-18 12-49-30_windows task manager

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

Just open Franz and look at the task Manager in Windows.

Your Environment

Windows 7 Pro x64
Franz Version used: 5.0b10

research necessary

Source

seiferflo

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Most helpful comment

No idea if it is helpful but Slack's 3.0 beta managed to reduce their RAM usage by a huge amount. Here is their write-up: https://slack.engineering/growing-pains-migrating-slacks-desktop-app-to-browserview-2759690d9c7b

hsiktas on 26 Dec 2017

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All 12 comments

Thanks for reporting this. I need to do some research and testing. Please stay tuned.

adlk on 18 Oct 2017

hsiktas on 26 Dec 2017

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I came here to also report memory usage issues on Linux Mint. The app is unfortunately nearly unusable with just 6 services connected, and I am hoping to connect many more (I participate in many open source online communities).

In my normal browser usage, I use the app Tab Suspender to keep my memory usage manageable. I am hoping the Franz developers can implement a similar feature that allows me to choose which services are "active" and thus consuming system resources.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-suspender-tab-unloader/

(Sorry if this is hijacking the issue, I hope the above suggestion can be a solution for OP's issue as well as mine.)

durbanpoison on 4 Jan 2018

we're still looking into this! don't worry, we want Franz to be as lean as possible :)

haraldox on 13 Jan 2018

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Duplicate of https://github.com/meetfranz/franz/issues/265

haraldox on 13 Jan 2018

Just came to chime in with the same issue. Just using Discord and a couple of Slacks on Mac OS X El Capitan and Franz is consuming more than 2GB of RAM.

bigtunacan on 3 Jul 2018

I have 8GB of RAM on my Macbook and Franz needs about 2,5GB... I use the current beta build with 3 slacks, Facebook Messenger and Whatsapp.

spacetimecontimoum on 7 Aug 2018

I am facing the same issue. I have 20 GB RAM installed. Lately, Franz starts sometimes a rampage and take around 12-16 GB which leads to an almost freezing PC.
I love this tool so much that I even bought the premium support, but this is really annoying. Would be great to have something like a RAM management setting, so it can't get insane 😋
It is only one process of it that is doing it.

hannojg on 4 Jan 2019

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@adlk Are you going to fix this at any time? As far as I can see, all tickets regarding this (quite severe) issue are closed.
Many of my colleagues already quit using Franz and if the memory consumption stays that extreme, I will have to quit as well.
2GB RAM is way too much for Whatsapp, Telegram and 3x Slack and slows down the PC noticeably.

mP765 on 10 Jun 2019

i have slack and fb and there are like 4 proccesses totalling 1500mb, insane

TomasSestak on 11 Jun 2019

Clearly they either don't care to fix this issue, or they don't have the ability to do so. I for one quit using this.

bigtunacan on 11 Jun 2019

with 13 services activated i have near 23 processes used by Franz...
This post started 2 years ago, maybe it's time to talk less and act more maybe ?
Is that possible to fix this HUGE problem or not ?