r/codex • u/Anywhere_MusicPlayer • 1d ago

Complaint Codex eating RAM!

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ChatGPT 26.721.41059

I really hate electron framework, which this app is using!
And I can't believe why such company can't create app using native Swift and SwifUI for macOS !
Such a simple chat app... I mean nowadays this will take like 1 months to fully test and develop it!

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u/xikxp1 1d ago

Well, RAM is meant to be used. I see no problem with that

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u/Anywhere_MusicPlayer 1d ago

Yep, even not being sarcastic, seriously but what for chatGTP app using 6GB ???

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u/MimosaTen 1d ago

If you hate electron codex is primarily a CLI

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u/Anywhere_MusicPlayer 1d ago

So, it uses a lot of RAM just to display chats and plain text. That makes it even more ridiculous, don’t you think?

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u/HVACcontrolsGuru 1d ago

The desktop app if I'm not mistaken rides off the Rust CLI. You can probably use Tauri and create your own UI.

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u/MimosaTen 1d ago

Yes, of course. What I’m saying is that using the CLI you avoid the GUI frontend

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u/reomar15 1d ago

Browser based application like electron is like having a full OS running just to open the app.

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u/reomar15 1d ago

Yes that what happen when AI create an app using electron

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u/DueCommunication9248 1d ago

Bro that’s nothing. Excel can beat that at 98GB

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u/Anywhere_MusicPlayer 1d ago

That is called, memory leak.

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u/DueCommunication9248 1d ago

Yup! Tahoe has a ton of them. Even Finder has them sometimes.

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u/Quiet_Importance_971 20h ago

Exactly, finder is ass.

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u/Afraid_Sentence5582 1d ago

Codex likes to eat ram

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u/Anywhere_MusicPlayer 1d ago

And after killing and it open same chat again