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I must say, I'm surprised that it takes that much memory. I've got a 16GB macbook pro, and it sits at a comfortable 9GB "app memory". I've got one config projec
by tgv 4y ago
I must say, I'm surprised that it takes that much memory. I've got a 16GB macbook pro, and it sits at a comfortable 9GB "app memory". I've got one config project open, one pretty large Vue/TS/HTML/CSS project, and two Go projects opened in VSCode, plus Chrome and Firefox, plus Outlook and Teams. And Emacs. I regularly run a Django docker project too, together with DBeaver and PyCharm, and still it doesn't eat up all my memory (although I do close VSCode in that case). Everything is memory hungry, yes, but it doesn't look like I need 32GB.
Pricey machine, BTW.
- faeriechangling 4y agoI like to run every OS at once and it takes a little memory although 32gb is plenty.
- tuetuopay 4y agomacOS is very aggressive on memory compression and swap. When I still used a Mac for work, it said 11GB for sure as app memory, with a 40+ GB swap file alongside it.
- varispeed 4y agoI have a similar setup, but on 32GB macbook pro it is using 22-25GB.
- vbezhenar 4y agoI'm using 64 GB MBP and it usually eats all that memory (mostly for caches, but it definitely exceeds 20 GB even for simple tasks like IDE + Safari). I guess applications configure themselves differently according to max memory available.
- xuki 4y agoUnused memory is wasted memory.
- WhyNotHugo 4y agoJeez, and I complain when my IDE gets close to 1GB.
- tgv 4y agoAre you sure that isn’t file cache and such? The OS uses as much of it as it can.
- Zandikar 4y agoI've never understood this complaint that software uses all of the available memory and the implication that that is somehow a bad thing. That's the whole point of memory. To load up as much of the software or user data as possible into a fast-access cache to reduce wait times on paging to storage. I'd be concerned if my applications weren't using all that's available. That'd be a huge waste of money. That's a lot like buying a house then being mad when you actually use all of the rooms.
- vbezhenar 4y agoI definitely don't complain, I'm actually happy that this RAM is not wasted. Just wanted to provide data point which might be interesting for those who think how many RAM they need.