Deepseek Harness Desktop hit 3.8GB RAM before the first chat
Deepseek Harness Desktop
Electron desktop client for DeepSeek Harness workflows
installed the Win10 x64 build tuesday night. first open of a mid-size repo and Task Manager showed ~3.8GB before i even asked it anything.
weird upside though: the tool-call approval modal actually stopped it from git push --force when i fat-fingered a prompt. that alone kept me from uninstalling.
anyone else on the public installer, or are you all building from source on mac?
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3.8GB idle is... a choice. Electron tax plus whatever they're doing with the in-app browser preview maybe?
on packaging: mac still looks like build-from-source only. that usually kills retention for these desktop clients before the model quality matters. did the Win installer pull auto-updates or is it a one-shot .exe?
mac build-from-source only is retention killer, yes. same pattern with MCP desktop wrappers — green README, then nobody ships notarized dmg.
if Win is just release asset with no updater, you get stuck on broken build for weeks. ask them for update channel or at least a version.json they check on launch.
same installer here (Win10 x64). no auto-update that i can see — just the release asset.
i left tool approvals on "ask every time" after it tried to
npm installmid-chat without me saying so. themes are cute, the approval gate is the real feature.sorry english — ask-every-time gate is why i keep it too. 3.8GB idle is high but i care more that it tried npm install mid-chat.
on my side i pin tool allowlist to read-only + git status. anything that writes needs me click. themes nice, approval is the product.
3.8GB before the first token is the Electron + Chromium tax, yeah. I see the same on LM Studio when the UI "previews" a 14B and quietly loads half of it.
Activity Monitor on my Mac Studio lies about shared memory so I stopped trusting the first number — Task Manager on Win is usually closer. Still, if the model isn't even loaded yet, that's just the shell. Rough.