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Power Automate Out of Memory Errors
Is anyone else running into these out of memory errors when editing or testing complex workflows in Power Automate? It seems like something changed in the last month or two and now editing and testing are slower and I keep getting the popup with the Wait and Exit Page icons. I try to wait, but at some point, it either pulls its head out of its butt and works, or the whole screen goes black with an OOM error and a pretty blue refresh button. I have at least one other coworker who is seeing similar things but wanted to see if it was happening outside our work tenant.
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@Dustin Rocksvold I purchased a new laptop 6 months ago, and memory still has huge capacity so it can't be that. I do suspect there may be a recent update that has affected things, so uninstalling updates would be my next step I guess. Chrome works no better for me than Edge. In the meantime, I discovered another possible cause last night which may or may not shed light on your Power Automate memory timeouts. Although my performance issue is with Power Apps rather than Power Automate, I'm suspecting my problem may be something connection/provider-related. I usually work off a fibre connection and my normal fibre speed tests all look excellent, but although everything like normal browsing/streaming is fine, my Power Apps suddenly started loading terribly in the past week. I realized last night that I should maybe try my mobile internet, which is with Vodacom. Even though the internet speed for Vodacom is hugely inferior to that of my Afrihost fibre, with my Vodacom connection the same app loaded a lot faster than it did on my fibre connection. Power Apps Monitor showed that the SharePoint connector calls were taking around 10x longer on the fibre connection than on Vodacom. Just sharing this as it may be worth testing your Power Automate editing from a completely different internet source, such as a mobile hotspot, just to see whether it behaves differently. I've logged a ticket with my fibre provider to investigate routing to the Microsoft Power Platform, and in the meantime will connect to my Vodacom internet just to get some work done. I expect this will take a lot of fighting with my internet service provider to get anything sorted out. All sounds similar to what Darren described, but it's a real problem for me now as my client is not happy with the slower speed of apps I've been building for him. I can't tell him to change his internet provider! Screenshots showing the difference in app loading speeds are attached just for interest's sake. My Afrihost fibre has download/upload speeds of 411/418 respectively, whereas Vodacom has 14/4!! And yet, look at my app loading speed comparisons...
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P.S. In response to something else you mentioned in your initial post: I also have been getting the "Wait" message when I'm working in Power Apps. It appears often. This has only been happening in the past 6 months. I never used to see this message previously.
Power Apps performing slowly
Reaching out to ask whether anyone else is experiencing a severe reduction in performance currently? For me it started two days ago. I've developed several apps, which were all running extremely efficiently - initial app load was virtually instant. The past two days however, these same apps are taking in excess of 15 seconds to load! Nothing has been changed in the apps to cause such a slowdown. I have no code running in App.OnStart. And my initial StartScreens in each app are fairly simple - they are not loading large or complex collections, or anything major. Feel like I'm walking through the twilight zone right now! I've tested on another computer; I've tested various browsers, including incognito; I've checked internet speed and laptop performance - those are good. ALL my apps are slow. Slow to play, and a pain to edit. Microsoft are not admitting to anything. The technician I just dealt with started questioning how many controls I had on my StartScreen, and so I switched it out and made a blank screen my StartScreen - and even the blank screen took 6 seconds to finish loading! The technician has gone away to think about things a bit more. In the meantime though, is anyone else experiencing ANY slowdown in app performance? Or if you've ever encountered anything like this in the past, what was it that was impacting on performance please? I'm in South Africa. My power apps environment was created with Europe as the region.
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Power Apps outage?
Is power apps down today, or is it just me? (Had to happen when I'm behind with my deadline!๐Ÿ˜ฑ)
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@Darren Neese Thanks Darren. Was down for about 3 hours - total panic, and then I was like that cat trying to catch up for lost time ๐Ÿ˜„
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@Elvis Eyobor Thanks Elvis. It did come back eventually, and is much faster now - so all is well with the world again ๐Ÿ™‚
PowerApps Competitors
Who has tried other lowcode platforms out there.. Share you experience with us.. i wanna hear it๐Ÿ˜ƒ
2 likes โ€ข Aug '25
@Guy Johnsen I was quite interested in learning Airtable, and I researched it quite a bit recently. I may be wrong in my understanding of things, but it seemed that Airtable is simpler to work with but it does have limitations, and that Power Apps is the better tool if developing more complex business apps.
Drag & Drop Tasks
Iโ€™ve done a lot of research over the last 9-10 months on solutions to queries I have in Power Apps. Some of which were probably too advanced for my skills at the time. Nevertheless, I followed guidance on YouTube and eventually modified what I saw to work to my needs. I probably didnโ€™t understand why it was working but I made it work. I then came across @Darren Neese and the Learn Power Apps community. There is so much useful information and guidance offered that I recently purchased the PPC course to advance my knowledge. That brings me back to why Iโ€™m posting. One thing I would like to see on the channel is a solution to dynamically drag and drop for tasks. i.e. having a list of tasks/jobs that I can drag and assign to a user/time slot just like scheduling our production or maintenance jobs. I found a really good solution by Scott Durow where he provided a component which allowed me do it (link below). https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhgOm-Jpmt82JvLdJFx3Zqo89h_deWJQF&si=Iioh8BXLOVnosTqz It was fairly in depth and took me a lot of time to get up and running, but I did get it working, well sort of. I could drag and drop my tasks but could not figure out how to get the Patch back to my datasource to work as I was trying to adapt his instruction to my app needs. Like I mentioned earlier, I was probably trying to achieve something far too advanced for my understanding at the time. If I looked at it again, I may stand a better chance of achieving the final goal of saving my drag and drop changes. Is it possible to come up with a solution that achieves a similar result without the need for installing the components that Scott provides? Itโ€™s a big ask but, if Iโ€™ve learned anything, you have to think a bit out of the box and thatโ€™s what this community and its contributors do best.
1 like โ€ข Nov '24
@Nick McDermott Not at my computer right now, but I'll send you the code tomorrow.
1 like โ€ข Aug '25
@Dustin Rocksvold Hi Dustin. Not been on here for a while, so apologies for the delay in seeing your message. I did get Scott Durow's drag & drop component working with SharePoint for a client app I built some time back. It was an Audit Scheduling tool that I built, and everything was working well last time I checked. The drag & drop worked and records were being saved successfully, the visual adjustments on drop were working, and users can edit, etc. Client seemed happy. ๐Ÿ˜„ I believe that the drag & drop feature is now available out the box for model-driven apps, but I only work with SharePoint so will stick with Scott's component although it can be temperamental. There was one version of my app that crashed, I think due to a mismatch between the Power Apps update and Scott's component, but fortunately I had a previous app version to go back to and it was fine so long as I didn't turn on certain new features. (Sorry for vagueness, but I can't recall now what the exact issue was.) I may use the component again soon for a Kanban style "Requirements Checklist" thingey I'm building at present, although it maybe feels a bit of an overkill putting this into an app since SharePoint does actually have its own Kanban list view already built in... ๐Ÿ˜‰
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Wendy Meyer
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I'm a SharePoint/Power Apps developer and ISO 9001 systems specialist from South Africa โ€“ constantly learning and growing with the Power Platform.

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