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On Mac, you can find Compressed memory in Activity monitor. It’s something similar to swap - apps do not need to have built in support for it.
by miohtama 4y ago
On Mac, you can find Compressed memory in Activity monitor.
It’s something similar to swap - apps do not need to have built in support for it.
- flatiron 4y agoIt segments a certain amount of ram to “swap” to which means compress and store. Normal blue sky ram operations are not compressed on macOS
- comboy 4y agoOh, yes compressed swap makes much more sense, thanks.
- kergonath 4y agoIt is not compressed swap, the compressed data is still in RAM. The OS just compresses inactive memory, with a couple of criteria to define “inactive”.
- smcleod 4y agoMany operations are actually a lot faster with compressed memory than without. It's all about where the bottleneck is.