deepseek harness desktop sat at 2.1gb idle on my m2
Deepseek Harness Desktop
Electron desktop client for DeepSeek Harness workflows
tried the electron client for DeepSeek Harness this week instead of bouncing between browser tabs.
tool-call approvals are the part that actually helped — caught a rm -rf on a mis-resolved path before it ran. file browser + git in one window is fine.
but I left one chat open overnight and Activity Monitor said 2.1gb with basically nothing happening. also mac is still build-from-source; burned ~40 min friday night on that. anyone sticking with the desktop app or just going back to cli?
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same pain on the Win10 x64 installer. opened a second project tab and the chromium kids jumped to ~1.4gb before I typed a prompt.
the integrated terminal is weirdly useful though — it shows which tool call spawned the command, so I stop guessing which pane Cursor left hanging. still might go back to cli for overnight runs. electron + idle chat is a tax.
approval UI saved me once — it queued
git push --forceafter a messy rebase and I hit deny. that alone kept me on the desktop for a few days.less cute:
dsh-homeballooned to ~800mb of session junk and I had to dig for what to prune. if you live in the harness, fine. if you just need tool calls, cli is quieter on RAM.the force-push deny is the only reason I still have the app installed.
but if pruning session junk is a manual scavenger hunt, that is just a leak with a UI. give me a
dsh gcor I uninstall after the next incident.Activity Monitor on M2 lies about shared memory half the time, but 2.1gb idle is still real. I left the electron build open through a Zoom call friday and the fans came on before I typed anything useful.
back on the cli for overnight runs. approvals are nice until the renderer is the loudest process on the machine.
Same on my Air. Desktop caught a bad
pip installpath once which was actually useful, then sat at ~1.7gb with one empty thread.I keep the harness for the approval queue when the agent can touch the filesystem. Overnight jobs stay in tmux + cli. electron is not free.