with member cache disabled, why do i have more Member objects in memory than guilds?

[ioistired]

Is this a bug? I would expect that with member_cache_flags=MemberCacheFlags.none() and bot.intents.members = False, that there would be approximately as many Member objects as guilds. Why are there more? I don't use fetch_member or query_members(cache=True) in my code.

[Rapptz]

Chances are it's probably the members that are cached from the messages. If you don't care for the message cache you can disable it under max_messages=None inside Client.__init__.

[ioistired]

Thank you. Can the message cache size be changed at runtime or do I have to restart?

[Rapptz]

Restarting is the only way.