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High memory usage on Ubuntu

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Hi,

Looiking into memory usage on my laptopn, I was surprised to see that after a fresh boot, and no interactions,the overal keybase services are using about 750M of *resident* memory.
That's when all that's displayed is the keybase notification icon. I haven't opened the dektop app yet or accessed kbfs yet

![Screenshot from 2020-05-31 11-22-21](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22979/83349071-302a6b00-a332-11ea-86ea-76dad83107ea.png)

just opening the app, the memory usage rises to over 1GB, further interactions only seem to affect this

![Screenshot from 2020-05-31 11-29-56](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22979/83349064-1f79f500-a332-11ea-9acf-6262b0959035.png)

closing the app window doesn't change the resident memory footprint...

I love keybase and what you have been doing for encryption, thanks to keybase I finally got into gpg security keys and stuff, but I really wish the resident memory print would be lower ...

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Reproduce the reported state on Ubuntu after a fresh boot, first with only the notification icon and then after opening the desktop app. Compare resident memory with the reported roughly 750 MB and over 1 GB usage; done means identifying and resolving the excessive baseline footprint.

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Tech stack
ubuntu
Domain
desktop, operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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