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104 MB at the moment. For me at least, Slack really got their shit together sometime last year and improved the issue significantly. I still remember having to restart Slack twice a day, but it ain't issue anymore.

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You need to count the helpers.

- Slack: 103.8 MB

- Slack Helper: 61 MB

- Slack Helper: 459.1 MB

- Slack Helper: 549.6 MB

- Slack Helper: 264.9 MB

Total = 1.4384 GB for only 3 Slack channels on macOS High Sierra

Pretty absurd.

Would probably help to say how many slack organizations you’re using. I’m on around 6, and Slack almost always takes up a big chunk of memory. I suspect those with less resource usage are in fewer orgs, but it’s hard to say.

Over a gigabyte - never used more than a single organization. Gave up, the in-browser version has all the features the webkit-wrapper version has and is tamed well by the browser itself.

I have 3 slack orgs I'm signed into and macOS claims its using 100mb.

I admit I don't really pay attention but I've never noticed Slack using crazy amounts of memory.

What am I doing right?

Roughly 800MB for me at the moment. 95MB main process, 2 helpers at 50MB and 1 helper at 600MB.

Yup, for me according to Activity Monitor: 107MB, and Compressed Memory 20MB.

Part of 6 organizations.

Running High Sierra.

Yeah, mine is 122MB at the moment as displayed in the OS X Activity monitor.

Continuing the anecdata collection, I'm in the over 1GB club. One instance of Slack, six of Slack Helper, several of which using 200GB of memory, but the biggest being 1GB. Timely thread, since when I sat down this morning and unlocked my computer, I was warned that I'd run out of memory and needed to quit some apps.

> several of which using 200GB of memory

I really, really hope you mean "200MB", although I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they managed to use 200GB if accidentally started on a beefy server.

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