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Slack might have 1.5 GB mapped between all of its processes but probably most of the processes many of the same pages, so it's a bit misleading to say Slack use
by AzN1337c0d3r 9y ago
Slack might have 1.5 GB mapped between all of its processes but probably most of the processes many of the same pages, so it's a bit misleading to say Slack uses up 1.5 GB of "real" memory.
- jacobsenscott 9y agoExactly this. The "Memory" tab in activity monitor is next to useless. It doesn't give you any idea how much of that memory is shared, exclusive to the processes, paged out, etc. Each of those processes is using some fraction of the amount displayed in the 'Memory' column.