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I somehow doubt that. Look at Cached files and subtract that number from Memory used, and tell us please that number.

by lifty 4y ago

vardump 4y ago
No "free" command. With "top" command I got this: MemRegions: 1744370 total, 5771M resident, 234M private, 4726M shared. PhysMem: 31G used (2888M wired, 15G compressor), 74M unused. A bit confusing even for someone who is comfortable dealing with low level kernel stuff... I guess I'll need to install Homebrew, MacPorts or something. Edit vm_stat says this. Looks like more reasonable output: % vm_stat Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 16384 bytes) Pages free: 4070. Pages active: 387530. Pages inactive: 385599. Pages speculative: 241. Pages throttled: 0. Pages wired down: 185222. Pages purgeable: 2. "Translation faults": 458286513. Pages copy-on-write: 18032218. Pages zero filled: 230111374. Pages reactivated: 9982494. Pages purged: 4086524. File-backed pages: 197104. Anonymous pages: 576266. Pages stored in compressor: 2007280. Pages occupied by compressor: 1062310. Decompressions: 6355861. Compressions: 10204603. Pageins: 13150790. Pageouts: 252630. Swapins: 52. Swapouts: 30380.
- lifty 4y ago
  Better to use Activity Monitor, as simple as that might be.
baal80spam 4y ago
FWIW, with only Chrome (several windows, multiple tabs, rebooted a few weeks ago) open I'm at: Physical Memory: 32,00 GB Memory Used: 21 GB Cached Files: 10,45 GB Swap Used: 0 GB
- foldr 4y ago
  You can look at any number of videos demonstrating that a base model MacBook Air is more than capable of running Chrome with a few tabs open. Modern browsers (and operating systems) opportunistically use free RAM for caching.

I somehow doubt that. Look at Cached files and subtract that number from Memory used, and tell us please that number.

by lifty 4y ago

I somehow doubt that. Look at Cached files and subtract that number from Memory used, and tell us please that number.

No "free" command. With "top" command I got this: MemRegions: 1744370 total, 5771M resident, 234M private, 4726M shared. PhysMem: 31G used (2888M wired, 15G compressor), 74M unused. A bit confusing even for someone who is comfortable dealing with low level kernel stuff... I guess I'll need to install Homebrew, MacPorts or something. Edit vm_stat says this. Looks like more reasonable output: % vm_stat Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 16384 bytes) Pages free: 4070. Pages active: 387530. Pages inactive: 385599. Pages speculative: 241. Pages throttled: 0. Pages wired down: 185222. Pages purgeable: 2. "Translation faults": 458286513. Pages copy-on-write: 18032218. Pages zero filled: 230111374. Pages reactivated: 9982494. Pages purged: 4086524. File-backed pages: 197104. Anonymous pages: 576266. Pages stored in compressor: 2007280. Pages occupied by compressor: 1062310. Decompressions: 6355861. Compressions: 10204603. Pageins: 13150790. Pageouts: 252630. Swapins: 52. Swapouts: 30380.

lifty 4y ago
Better to use Activity Monitor, as simple as that might be.

baal80spam 4y ago

FWIW, with only Chrome (several windows, multiple tabs, rebooted a few weeks ago) open I'm at: Physical Memory: 32,00 GB Memory Used: 21 GB Cached Files: 10,45 GB Swap Used: 0 GB

foldr 4y ago
You can look at any number of videos demonstrating that a base model MacBook Air is more than capable of running Chrome with a few tabs open. Modern browsers (and operating systems) opportunistically use free RAM for caching.