diff --git a/desktop/src/main.ts b/desktop/src/main.ts
index 4ebe565bca..9f00213640 100644
--- a/desktop/src/main.ts
+++ b/desktop/src/main.ts
@@ -69,6 +69,19 @@ export const allowWindowClose = (): void => {
  * We call this at the end of this file.
  */
 const main = () => {
+    // Debugging memory consumption
+    app.commandLine.appendSwitch("js-flags", "--trace_gc --trace_gc_verbose");
+    app.commandLine.appendSwitch("enable-logging");
+    app.commandLine.appendSwitch("log-file", "chromium.log");
+    app.commandLine.appendSwitch("log-level", "4");
+    app.commandLine.appendSwitch("v", "4");
+    setInterval(() => {
+        const { usedHeapSize, heapSizeLimit } = process.getHeapStatistics();
+        const heapUsed = Math.round(usedHeapSize / 1024);
+        const heapLimit = Math.round(heapSizeLimit / 1024);
+        log.info({ heapUsed, heapLimit });
+    }, 100);
+
     const gotTheLock = app.requestSingleInstanceLock();
     if (!gotTheLock) {
         app.quit();
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/upload/uploadManager.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/upload/uploadManager.ts
index 96ec37c3c3..9f0525f669 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/upload/uploadManager.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/upload/uploadManager.ts
@@ -918,6 +918,7 @@ const clusterLivePhotos = async (
  * it in an informed manner).
  */
 const logAboutMemoryPressureIfNeeded = () => {
+    logMem();
     if (!globalThis.electron) return;
     // performance.memory is deprecated in general as a Web standard, and is
     // also not available in the DOM types provided by TypeScript. However, it
@@ -932,3 +933,20 @@ const logAboutMemoryPressureIfNeeded = () => {
         );
     }
 };
+
+// Debugging memory consumption
+let started = false;
+const logMem = () => {
+    if (!globalThis.electron) return;
+    if (started) return;
+    started = true;
+    setInterval(() => {
+        const heapUsed = Math.round(
+            (performance as any).memory.usedJSHeapSize / 1024 ** 2,
+        );
+        const heapTotal = Math.round(
+            (performance as any).memory.usedJSHeapSize / 1024 ** 2,
+        );
+        log.info({ heapUsed, heapTotal });
+    }, 100);
+};