Yes. It consumes bit too much. But I found Iris consumes much more so I changed it to Amethyst am using it now. Hope the same thing is not gonna happen with Snort.
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Lol didnt know that Iris is even more resource hungry
By the way, do you have any social media account that you missed to follow, such as news account on twitter?
I don't think so. I have almost stop using Twitter, instead of the moment of an earthquake... I have not seen news media through SNS recently, either.