I've been monitoring this thread with interest because it seems like Mailplane uses way more memory than it should and the number grows with usage. After the Mailplane developers replied and said there's nothing wrong with their application I did some testing.
First I closed any tabs I had open then quit and restarted Mailplane. I left it like that for a day and the memory was constant at around 50 MB. Then I opened a single tab and used it and left it open. The memory usage started out around 300 MB and eventually went up to 800 MB before I closed it 8 hours later. Then I closed that tab and restarted and watched for a day while the usage hovered around 50 MB. Finally I opened two tabs and watched the memory usage slowly grow again. That made me think it's not the app but the Gmail web version the app is wrapping. With that in mind I did some research and determined that Gmail has a history memory leaks in the javascript that get patched as they're found and a solution is implemented. Gmail is a pretty complicated and comprehensive application so I get why there are leaks. There's a lot going on in there that needs to access memory. With that in mind and after testing several other mail clients I decided to stay with Mailplane and deal with the leaks as they occur. By dealing I mean I went into MailPlane and disabled anything I'm not using. I did the same in Gmail as well where I disabled chat, G+ integration, removed unused folders, etc. I spent about 45 minutes "tuning" my implementation. What that got me was a faster as leaner version of Gmail with fewer extra processes to leak memory into MailPlane. Gmail still leaks some memory and MailPlane still increases its memory usage as needed but now instead of going from 300 MB to 800 MB in a few hours it hovers between 350 MB and 450 MB for most of the few days I've been testing my new "setup". If anything changes I'll be sure to update this thread but for now I'm happier with a faster, leaner Mailplane and having tested most other clients I'm pleased to say I'll be continuing to use Mailplane until something better comes along for Gmail. On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 at 9:11:51 AM UTC-8, Dan Hurley wrote: > > Data from work... same scenario which I described earlier... Mailplane > with 4 tabs... Safari with the same 4 tabs.... > > Mailplane using 1.54 GIG ! of RAM... And at the moment Mailplane is "Not > Responding" (that's actually pretty rare)- > killed and restarted and Mailplane restarted using 539 Meg. > > Safari meanwhile is using 49 meg for the same 4 tabs. > > So results similar - Mailplane is using considerably more memory than > Safari to support the same four tabs. > > Safari: Version 8.0 (10600.1.25.1) > Mailplane: Version 3.3.3 (1244) > Mac OSX: 10.10.1 > Mac: Mac mini (Mid 2011) / 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 / 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Mailplane Support < > [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: >> >> Hi guys; >> >> Thanks for your observations. I'm running this all by Lars along with >> our own tests. I'll let you know if we have any suggestions or updates. >> >> Cheers; >> >> Jessica >> >> On Monday, December 8, 2014 1:45:25 PM UTC-5, Doug Lerner wrote: >> >>> I notice that when I start up Mailplane (3 account tabs open) that >>> initially is uses about 400 MB of RAM. But over a couple of days this >>> creeps up to over 1 GB. Usually I quit it and restart it when I see that >>> happening. But I wonder why it should grow over time like that? >>> >>> doug >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "mailplaneapp" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mailplaneapp. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mailplaneapp" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mailplaneapp. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
