> this is something that I've noticed MacOS has generally handled well Really? I’ve had the opposite experience. MacOS running out of memory and paging heavily

> this is something that I've noticed MacOS has generally handled well Really? I’ve had the opposite experience. MacOS running out of memory and paging heavily almost always necessitates a reboot to get performance fully restored, even if you kill the memory hog (if you aren’t willing to deal with a sluggish machine for a while that is).