Comments on: Review of Google Talk – Messenger which needs lots of improvement!

By: Hug

Hug — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:15:33 +0000

My google talk comes nowhere near 110+MB of ram. Currently with 4 chat windows open, it is using 15 mb.

By: Ramesh

Ramesh — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:38:27 +0000

Strangely, everyone points out Gtalk as a lightweight app. On an average, Gtalk consumes around 110+ MB RAM and that's way too much for a messenger program. Even McAfee sits quietly in the background within 120 MB. It doesn't slow down my laptop, though. I run XP on a 1.8 Ghz Intel chip with 2 GB RAM. The iGoogle Gadget seems to be the way to go..

By: neil

neil — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:34:44 +0000

right now googletalk is using 188MB of RAM. that is NUTS. i have less than a doen contacts. we chat for work and woudl want to leave it open for days. i never saw a chat prog use that much memory.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:31:14 +0000

I’m using version 1.0.0.104, which I believe is the latest.

I’m also not the only one having this issue:
http://groups.google.com/group/About-Google-Talk/browse_thread/thread/a331ab899d60541/120d0aecd3303c95?lnk=st&q=google+talk+memory#120d0aecd3303c95

By: ReviewSaurus

ReviewSaurus — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:09:41 +0000

@ Eric : Thanks for taking time to leave the comment. Well, my computer literally stays on for days and GTalk stays on for the same amount of time.

So, I’m not sure that why this happening to your computer.
May be a simple re-installation may help. Try it.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:36:26 +0000

Light weight?! You have obviously not used it for an extended period of time. I have seen google talk taking upwards of 100MB of RAM when left running for a while. Not only that, but sometimes when you open up a chat window, it doesn’t respond for up to 30 seconds. So this “light weight & efficient” review is absolute rubbish. It’s a memory hog. Right now, my google talk instance is taking up 60+ MB of RAM.

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By: ReviewSaurus

ReviewSaurus — Thu, 10 May 2007 20:38:39 +0000

Pallab : Well, strange on my computer Yahoo is somewhat around 30 Mb. Anyway, memory usage is still a big problem pallab as the requirement for windows increases, the extra ram which you buy gets used up to cater windows’ needs :P

To run Vista @ full capacity you need atleast 2 GB and for best performance at least 4 Gb…do you think its still that cheap???

By: Pallab

Pallab — Thu, 10 May 2007 19:53:28 +0000

Well, yahoo is using about 20mb ram and 0 cpu. With rams getting so cheap, memory usage shouldnt be an issue for most of the people.

By: reviewsaurus

reviewsaurus — Mon, 07 May 2007 14:36:56 +0000

Well, Ashish it is light and not a memory hog and that’s the only reason why even I love it. Apart from Skype is my choice of messenger.