Memory Consumption Still an Issue
The Wrike app still uses an unacceptable amount of RAM on systems. I only have one tab open in the application, I have cleared the caches in the history menu, I have gone into the developer tools for container window and cleared things and it still has a huge memory footprint after using it for a bit.
Wrike Helper (Renderer) 1.60GB
Wrike Helper (Renderer) 88.8MB
Wrike 81.6MB
Wrike Helper (GPU) 69MB
Wrike Helper (Renderer )65.3MB
Why does Wrike need over 1.8GB of RAM. This is a productivity tool - not a video editing application. Please please please invest heavily in optimizing the application to use less memory. I have Slack open all day and it will always stay under 700MB in total. Please get Wrike there (or less).
Hi Matt, I have to agree with you. I think the New Experience specially is heavier on the load. And doesn't matter if you use the app or the browser, cause the Wrike app is basically a browser window with a fancy icon.
Unfortunately this issue is not exclusively with Wrike, modern web development languages are relying each day more and more on the user-side for processing it's data and application, specially javascript. This requires enormous amount of RAM and processor power.
I left Google Chrome in the Mac and started to use Safari instead. What a difference it makes for the better! But even so Wrike and Gmail start to show slowness and unresponsiveness after a few hours. In Gmail I got rid of the thousands of labels I used and it got a lot better, but far from what a MacBook Pro 15 (16GB RAM, SSD and i7 Intel processor) with 2 years of life should deal with no problem at all.
Imagine who it feels for others who have less powerfull computers? :-(
Wrike Team, a native app for Mac and Windows relying less on browser is at the roadmap? (I'm gonna post this suggestion! heheh)
Thank you for sharing your feedback Matt Peterman, Neyl Walecki! I've made our Product team aware of it. I also know that our Support team can help reduce memory consumption in some cases, so please feel free to reach out to them or let me know and I'll raise a ticket for you.
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