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My M1 Air is a nearly perfect machine, but I continuously find myself looking at the yellow “memory pressure” graph and swap disk writes. I wish Apple never of
by donny2018 4y ago
My M1 Air is a nearly perfect machine, but I continuously find myself looking at the yellow “memory pressure” graph and swap disk writes.
I wish Apple never offered 8gb version, as I was surprised to find that MacOS wants to use more RAM than a Windows machine with the same amount of RAM.
- joshspankit 4y agoIf they gave us a way to actually disable the macOS features, 8GB would be very usable. But everything from regular wifi/bt scanning to photo tagging to adding all interactions to a giant Siri database so that the OS can suggest what it thinks you’re most likely to open at any given moment. These all need RAM and other resources even if you don’t have any open applications.
- maybelsyrup 4y agoThere aren't third-party ways to shut some of that stuff off? When I used OSX I remember a great app called OnyX [1] that could customize deeper, system-level stuff. [1] https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/index.html https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/index.html
- saagarjha 4y agoHave you checked to see how much they are using? In general it's not much.
- turtlebits 4y agoTheres no need to watch memory/swap, just use it as it is intended. IME, 8gb is plenty.
- tluyben2 4y agoI exchanged my 8gb air for 16gb and it's perfect. Really cannot get it bogged down. Definitely now that most things are Apple Silicon compiled; before that it was a bit more problematic.