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Teams Performance
Sure, try telling this to anyone running Teams on a laptop/netbook with 4GB RAM 🙂
ChrisWebbTech it still regularly uses 1.5GB RAM and over 30% CPU during meetings, slowing our 8th Gen Intel i5 CPU 8GB RAM HP EliteDesk G4 Mini PCs to a crawl when users have so much as 5 Chrome tabs, the Outlook 365 Desktop app, the OneNote UWP App, and the Microsoft To-Do app open.
Normally I would agree that memory usage != performance issues, however, when your machines have to split available RAM between the integrated graphics and other mandatory company programs, it's hardly acceptable to see Teams using 20% of the total available, especially when other apps built on the same ElectronJS platform (Discord & Slack, for example) manage to consume almost nothing during a call or when switching text channels.
When I use MS Teams to join meetings from my home computer with a 4th Gen i7 and 24GB RAM, it still chugs while utilizing the same resources, albeit a tad less CPU. To be clear, my home PC is able to switch to other applications a little faster, but the extra RAM and processing power don't seem to help Teams performance at all, indicating a problem with the code that makes up Teams' core.
I understand development takes time, but it's going on 6+ years now with Teams still exhibiting performance issues. Maybe it's time for a rewrite of Teams from the ground up similarly to Slack's recent rewrite?
- https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/17219609-teams-uses-600mb-and-is-super-slow
- https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/07/slack-desktop-successful-rewrite/
- https://slack.engineering/rebuilding-slack-on-the-desktop-308d6fe94ae4
Tagging jcgonzalezmartin and jimharpert so they can see Teams using more than 1GB RAM at least once in their life. Also looping in VasilMichev and Eric DeVaudreuil because they're spot on with their prior comments about high resource usage. Also making StevenC365 aware of why one might not want to see a single application utilize such high amounts of resources.
It's a lost cause mate, that's how "modern" development works.
VasilMichev Agreed. Companies these days go "Are people paying for it? yes? then it's not worth spending time fixing"
People need to start talking with their wallets. When the money stop flowing they start listening.
ChrisWebbTech Thanks. I agree memory is not exceeding ~800mb lately. Maybe some update fixed this 🙂
On the other hand, my CPU spikes were still dramatic. I fixed this by disabling the GPU rendering in Teams (strange? I would say GPU rendering should improve the performance instead of degrading).
See https://www.itexperience.net/2020/01/10/fix-performance-issues-teams-high-cpu-memory-usage/
He also speaks about disabling the Outlook add-ins and integration, but actually I want to keep those features. I'm happy with the performance for now.
jimharpert why wouldn't you want it to use as much CPU as possible when it has something to do? Surely it should just do things as fast as possible and then be done.
- Scrolling through the Teams chats was almost impossible. It took 10+ seconds to display the text. And when I scrolled up, it would take another 10 seconds to display the other posts/texts.
CPU was spiking at that same time.
Now I disabled that GPU rendering, and performance in teams has improved greatly. CPU is below 10% (which saves my laptop battery as well). SO I don't see any reason to enable it.
ChrisWebbTech Yet the minimum requirements still say 2GB! That's unrealistic.
In an organization that wants to move to Teams that has spinning disks, and 4GB of RAM in desktops, it's a product that is impossible to support.
It's frustrating to see the team continuing to post on things like integrations with third parties, when the core of the product is still extremely inefficient, and there doesn't look to be any priority put towards it.
- To be fair, I have never seen Teams Desktop client using 1 GB neither 2 GB ofr RAM memory
It's not just Teams running on that device though. And I've seen it very close to 1GB.
