Toolbox needs 450+ MB of RAM?

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Subject says it all: on my Mac, the activity Monitor shows me 450+ MB memory usage for the tool box. Why on earth does a little utility that keeps track of installed/available tools, and my local projects need such amounts of memory?

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You are right, that's too much. We're working on improving it and hope to share the new version soon.

Sounds great, thank you very much!

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Came here searching for this. Been getting out of memory warnings and Toolbox is one of the largest offenders. Glad to hear there is a fix coming. 

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On Linux the ram consumption is still 300-400MB. The tool is really useful but the memory footprint is not justified. I guess that is because of the tools used for cross platform compatibility. I hope you can solve this one, especially for the case when it's sitting idle in the systray.

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I echo what others have said in that it is a very helpful tool but idle RAM consumption is 383.4 MB (in linux). I had to disable it from running on startup. 

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(Linux) It seems this issue is not solved yet, had to disable Toolbox also and launch it only occasionally to handle updating, not very useful and certainly against the proposed usage. 

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2024-06-26, I too am seeing it hover around 400-500 MB. JetBrains Toolbox 2.3.2.31487, macOS 14.3, arm64.

Victor Kropp is there a ticket or something we can follow for the fix you referred to in your 2021 comment?

fwiw, after restarting, it very quickly takes up 300+ MB, but doesn't quite reach pre-restart levels for a while.

But either way, this is far too much memory for such a small util to be constantly taking up. I've opted to turn off ‘launch at startup’ as well, and just open when I need it, similar to Luiz.

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