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Can’t answer for music, but as a developer a sure way to waste a lot of RAM is to run a bunch of virtual machines, containers or device simulators. I have 32GB

Can’t answer for music, but as a developer a sure way to waste a lot of RAM is to run a bunch of virtual machines, containers or device simulators. I have 32GB, so unless I’m careless everything usually fits in memory without swapping. If you got over things get slow and you notice.

00deadbeef 5y ago
Same, I tend to get everything in 32GB but more and more often I'm going over that and having things slow down. I've also nuked an SSD in a 16GB MBP due to incredibly high swap activity. It would make no sense for me to buy another 32GB machine if I want it to last five years.
- miohtama 5y ago
  Don’t run Chrome and Slack at the same time :)
  - arvinsim 5y ago
    So run Slack inside Chrome? :)
- xcskier56 5y ago
  How do you track the swap activity? What would you call “high” swap activity?
  - discordance 5y ago
    Open Activity Monitor, select Memory and there's "Swap used" down the bottom
secondcoming 5y ago
My laptop has 128GB for running several VMs that build C++ code, and Slack.