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MacOS treats unused memory as wasted memory. It does its best to keep memory filled. So a lot of that 12Gb is likely to be 'just in case' stuff. What does the m
by Angostura 3y ago
MacOS treats unused memory as wasted memory. It does its best to keep memory filled. So a lot of that 12Gb is likely to be 'just in case' stuff. What does the memory pressure graph look like in Activity Monitor?
- nottorp 3y agoThe thing is, when I run an applicaion that allocates 8 G on top of that, it compresses like 7 G, memory pressure turns brown, it goes 3-4 G into swap and sometimes the app crashes :) So the legend has a grain of truth, but you can only stretch it so much.