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ChatGPT app is leaking like hell

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I went out for lunch and came back saw this, ChatGPT app is using more memory than all other apps combined, by a lot! I heard that it's built on Electron? So I was expecting it to have a bigger memory footprint, but never this big :(

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  1. 2026-09-09 20:49 · r/OpenAI
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