Why is vorta using 500MB+ memory when in tray?

[JackDinn]

Yesterday i noticed vorta was using over half a Gig of memory, I just restarted it and continued with my day but this morning i notice that again it was creeping up and was at 300MB+

Vorta 0.6.21
System: Host: greg-pc Kernel: 5.1.19-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.1.0 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.16.3

As i write this its now up to 370MB, please advise.

[m3nu]

PyQt isn't very efficient with RAM. Usage should be a bit lower when the settings window is closed. You can also look into the upcoming Go implementation. It's a lot more efficient, but doesn't have all the features of the Python version yet. https://github.com/borgbase/vorta-go

[JackDinn]

Usage should be a bit lower when the settings window is closed.

This memory usage is with the settings window closed.

I shall take a quick look at the go front-end, thx.

[m3nu]

While I'd love to improve memory usage, this is mainly down to Qt. If there are still any specific steps we could do in the context of this project, please share here. Until then I'm closing it.

[m3nu]

Also: RAM usage on macOS is just 129 MB with the main window closed. Not great, but not 500 MB either.