The launcher consumes a lot of RAM.

[yonoff]

The launcher consumes a lot of RAM, usually more than 500MB of RAM is displayed in cached processes. For comparison, other launchers (rootless pixel launcher & lawnchair 12.1) consume about 100MB of RAM on my phone.
Launcher version - 5.1.1 (github)
Phone model - Google Pixel 4a
Android version - 13 (TQ3A.230805.001)

[annoying-default-user]

For comparsion, on my Pixel 6 with A13 it uses actually 169MB, but the system also say "Maximum was: 560MB". System standard reporting (no third party apps used to check) for the period of one day.
So it seems, the memory consumption is not all the day at such a high value.

[tibbi]

like how many app icons do you have?

[annoying-default-user]

In my case, 7 widgets (on 2 desktops), 4 icons on desktop, 5 icons in the quick access bar (above the 3 control keys), one folder with 13 icons and another with 15.
No, I'm not a compulsive hoarder 🐿️ But thats why I'm here and not at one of all other FOSS launcher, which all following the KISS principle 😁

[yonoff]

like how many app icons do you have?

One desktop,
5 icons in dock, 15 on desktop.
No folders, one weather widget (tried also wo widget, same RAM usage)

[tibbi]

I mean all available app icons if you pull up the drawer, not just those on the home screen.

[yonoff]

I mean all available app icons if you pull up the drawer, not just those on the home screen.

52 icons in tha app drawer

[annoying-default-user]

101
And RAM usage of the launcher is actual 316MB with 544MB max today.