Agreed. Thank you very much, sir. Great insight. -mj

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> On Feb 13, 2015, at 08:32, Mailplane Support <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jim;
> 
> Wow, awesome information.  I'm thoroughly impressed!  
> 
> 
> Cheers;
> 
> Jessica
> Customer Support Ninja
> 
>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Jim Tinsky <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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]> 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
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