High Memory/RAM Usage
Microsoft Teams is currently the most RAM consuming application on my computer
Daniel Gauthier
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Thank you for your recent votes on the individual performance items. High memory and RAM usage is something we are continuously working to improve, and the team is hard at work on fixes.
If interested, you can find more details on how Teams currently uses Memory at https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoftteams/teams-memory-usage-perf.
244 comments
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jrr
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Yeah, this app is a total resource HOG.
Sitting still, and minimized, it uses about 1GB of RAM.
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vamshi
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Worst CPU and Memory Performance with Teams, it just eats up all CPU and Memory on PC even when there are no other applications running except Teams, still it complains your call quality is affected because for high CPU load
So it doesn't even recognize that it, itself is the culprit here, this teams assumes that whole PC is only for its own luxury, highly frustrated with this junk app, only using as its chosen by employer
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Anonymous
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Please fix this, I loved my surfacepro and all the other MS products when it worked. I am losing an hour per day waiting on my PC or rebooting it. It kills my train of thought as well. As a business owner, I can't have my staff dealing with this everyday. I hate to say this, but I just researched how to convert my company to the "other side." The only reason I consider this, is our phones never slow down nor have problems. Yes the initial price is higher, but with the lost productivity I'm experiencing in my staff, it will pay itself back in days.... My goal is not to convert, MS operate as they used to and I go back to my normal, happy life.
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Christian
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More bloat is added with every update, e.g. more background images for the together mode. It was running fine last year, but now it takes 30 seconds just to hang up a call.
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Anonymous
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My employer has been using MS Teams since December last year. Initially we thought it would be a great tool to use to collaborate and meet with our peers while working remotely. But it seems as if Teams has been getting worse each day. While on Teams video calls, my surface pro crashed several times over the last couple of weeks. This creates a lot of inefficiencies to my job as I have to constantly meet with my staff. We have noticed Teams uses a significant percentage (about 70%) of memory even though all other applications are closed. This issue needs to be resolved in order for Teams to be considered an effective collaborative work tool.
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Anonymous
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it is getting worse and worse at the moment. please fix asap, not sure how teams should become the client of the future with this horrible Performance
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Anonymous
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teams is also slowing down CAD applications. Opening a file took over 5 minutes. Signed out of Teams then signed back in, files open in <30 seconds.
Come on Microsoft, get it fixed.
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Anonymous
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Am facing a lot on this Teams. Its killing my laptop. Am from SAP Labs and using Teams.
Am restarting nearly >3 times daily. Even we raised Lenovo team and they said all good.
I clearly observed when I signout and kill teams it is releasing nearly 2-3 GB RAM and becoming good and my laptop is slowly coming back into my control.Older Microsoft Word and Excel are good. Earlier all softwares comes as exe files and now all are loading from APPS which is causing delay and consuming more RAM, network, hanging the systems
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Rayaz Muthalif
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Earlier the major cause of our corporate computers to slow down was McAfee, now the new No 1 has become Microsoft Teams. While we love the features of the application its high use or CPU and memory resources is making live very hard.
In most cases we have to exit the MS Teams desktop client to enable smooth operations on the laptop or take the MS teams calls on our mobiles :(
Mind you while the laptop is not high end, its definitely a good representative of a standard corporate laptops (6th gen i5, SSD, 8GB RAM).
In addition to the the high resources, the app has such terrible lag that how it passes internal UAT at Microsoft is unbelievable. The only thing i can imagine is that the testing team at Microsoft must be running nothing in the background and have machines with much higher configurations than standard corporate machines.
Give the UAT team low end machines, then they will definitely give you feedback of the trauma we face as users.
In general when idle MS teams uses about 800MB of memory, and increases as you get on to a call. The more telling issues is the high CPU dependency that causes a overall lag on the total machine.
Microsoft needs to work on the true usability and performance issue. Product is great, the concept and total unification of Microsoft products is an excellent concept, but work on streamlining it.
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Philip Leitch
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I find it immoral that you reset the vote count on this. the issue wasn't resolved and was one of the top items. Instead of addressing the issue you simply closed the issue.
There should be ramifications for this level of dishonesty. How many other items that aren't resolved reset when they become "too hard"?
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Philip Leitch
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I find it immoral that you reset the vote count on this. the issue wasn't resolved and was one of the top items. Instead of addressing the issue you simply closed the issue.
There should be ramifications for this level of dishonesty. How many other items that aren't resolved reset when they become "too hard"?
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dom
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screenshot from an M1 mac while a teams meeting is running - 5 teams processes using a combined 3.8GB
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Anonymous
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I like Teams. I don't like the system resources it uses. Try to join a VC and memory use spikes to 1.3GB then settles down at 1.1. Even doing nothing it uses approx 800MB. Between it and Edge, I regularly have 5% memory free of 8GB for extended periods. Please fix it
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Vinod
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I just joined a new organization and got Lenovo ThinkPad T15. MS Teams is hogging all the memory. Not just memory CPU, GPU, RAM and what not. I am not the only suffering with this in our organization. Please fix it ASAP. It is very difficult to work in such situation.
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Henrik BM
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Using a Lenovo ThinkPad T14 (Intel), I can barely even run Teams. Using somewhere between 800-1300MB RAM.
This is the case for the majority of our organisation.
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Seyyed Soroosh Hosseinalipour
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I think changing Teams platform to UWP or WFP is the player changer for performance, like https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/18667423-go-native-for-desktop
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Bharath
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Recently Teams started to crash with unexpected errors and forcing to restart the computer!
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LeoX
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Idle ram Usage: 800MB. You're not fixing this.
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Rob B
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Are you working on it? Are you? I really don't believe that considering it's been an issue for several years now and it's not gotten better. Nothing and no one says "we don't give a F" like Microsoft.
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Anonymous
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The memory usage is so high that Teams often freezes or crashes and slows down my entire computer so much that I can't work. At least I now know the problem and can turn it off when I need to work, but I shouldn't have to have a second device just to use your collaborative work tool!
