Export chat - memory leak, and ridiculously resource heavy

[mohmad-null]

Steps to reproduce

Outcome

I'm using the "export chat" function, it has found 16479 events.

Somehow this:

• Took 29 minutes!
• Using ~33% of 16 cores for the entire time!
• Using over 2.7GB of RAM.
• The UI locked up after a few mins, including the spinning thing stopping spinning.

The final file is only 1.85MB.

As someone who has done tons of log analysis and text manipulation over the years, this is unfathomably bad; 16000 records is basically nothing. I can see why the other export issues exist on here if this is so bad with just 16000 records (#25007 #27615 #21403 etc ).

Also: Element hasn't freed up the RAM usage. It's still using 2.9GB (it was about 320MB when I started.)

Operating system

Windows 10

Application version

Element desktop 1.11.80

How did you install the app?

No response

Homeserver

No response

Will you send logs?

No

[girlmaya]

Hi there, a shot in the dark but do you perhaps know of any other means of exporting/backing up chats separately from the element implementation? It's clearly not suitable for anything but small chats or short excerpts of the chat, and I've not been able to backup my chats in a while as a result. Thanks