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I don't trust some of the numbers in this article.
I'm literally sitting here right now on a Teams call (I've already contributed what I needed to), looking at my CPU usage, which is staying in the 4.6% to 7.3% CPU range.
Is that still too high? Probably. Have I seen it hit 100% CPU usage? Yes, rarely (but that's usually a sign of a deeper issue).
Maybe the author is going with worst case scenario. But in that case he should probably qualify the examples more.
Well, it's also stupid to use RAM size as an indicator of a machines CPU load capability...
Definitely sending off some tech illiterate vibes.
Most software shouldn't saturate either RAM or CPU on a modern computer.
Yes, Photoshop, compiling large codevases, and video encoding and things like that should make just of an the performance available.
But an app like Teams or Discord should not be hitting limits basically ever (I'll excuse running a 4k stream, but most screen sharing is actually 720p)
You're right, they shouldn't be stressing either resource. Though my point was that referencing how much RAM is in the system is a bit silly when referring to a CPU being pinned at 100%. There is a HUGE swathe of CPUs with an even bigger range of performance that are all sold in 32GB systems.
I'm positive the low end of that scale could be rightfully pinned at 100% for certain common tasks.
I haven't really checked but CPU usage on Teams while just being a member on a call is low, but using the camera with filters clearly uses more. Just checking CPU temps gives you more or less how much CPU is used by a program. So clearly it is just worst case scenario: using camera with filters on top.
My issue with Teams is that it uses a whole GB of ram on my machine with it just existing. It's like it loads the entire .NET runtime on the browser or something. IDK if it uses C# on the frontend.
Pretty sure it's a webview app, so probably all javascript.
Unless you’re running out of RAM what’s the issue? Unused ram is wasted ram.
that im running out of ram maybe ?
Running out of ram isn’t a problem in itself. You want your ram to be in use as much as possible ideally, otherwise why do you have it?
By running out I mean you’re getting issues caused by something needing ram and it not being able to get any, not simply all your ram being in use.
Ram usage today is insane, because there are two types of app on the desktop today: web browsers, and things pretending not to be web browsers.
Naah bro, teams is trash resource hog. What you are saying is essentially 'it works on my computer'.
Teams doesn’t use 100% of all CPU’s and 100% of your RAM. It just doesn’t. The article speaks about like 3 people having an issue with teams 2 years ago lol.