High idle ram usage on Mac OS
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Description
When Keybase is in background it uses more than 1 GB of memory, which is a problem on an older Macbook.
Processes:
Mac OS stats:
Keybase in finder disabled, as it can add an additional 100 MB.
edit:
1 hour of usage:
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Research direction
Start by reproducing Keybase's background memory usage on Mac OS, using the screenshots and the one-hour usage comparison as reference. Identify which Keybase processes account for the growth and investigate their idle behavior. Done means the background client no longer exceeds the reported memory usage without Finder integration enabled.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go, macos
- Domain
- desktop, performance
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100