Good data Jim, Thanks. So there may be a memory leak.. but it's a Gmail leak... not a mailplane leak, interesting.
I guess in a browser that might not be so obvious because tabs tend to get closed more often. I know I leave Mailplane running for days or weeks. I'm going to look and see if I can shut down some of the bells and whistles I use, but I'm hard pressed to think of any I can turn off... I *need* chat to keep in touch with my team and I already have Google+ turned off in mailplane. On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 3:49 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. 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