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Computers use RAM and Water is wet. Sorry, not seeing the issue here - RAM is designed to be used. Why would it flush it if there’s no pressure? If one gets h
by MissTake 2y ago
Computers use RAM and Water is wet.
Sorry, not seeing the issue here - RAM is designed to be used. Why would it flush it if there’s no pressure?
If one gets high swap then that’s a problem, but until then it’s simply the OS preemptively caching because “why not?”.
If you’ve paid for 8GB then you’d expect the OS to use it. Not sure why anyone would want the OS to purge memory when it doesn’t need to. It costs nothing to keep it ready and the OS can either page it out or get rid of it as and when needed.
This isn’t just Macs - happens on Windows as well.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/11zp2ao/high_ram_usage_even_when_not_running_any_big/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/11zp2ao/high_ram...
- sigzero 2y agoIs water wet? "Most scientists define wetness as a liquid's ability to maintain contact with a solid surface, meaning that water itself is not wet, but can make other sensation. But if you define wet as 'made of liquid or moisture', as some do, then water and all other liquids can be considered wet."
- gruez 2y ago>Sorry, not seeing the issue here - RAM is designed to be used. Why would it flush it if there’s no pressure? What indication is there that it could be flushed? The OP is referring to the 4.71GB used figure specifically. "Cached files" clearly can't possibly count towards that, because if you try to add that and the usages to the right (ie. app/wired/compressed) memory, you'll go above 4.71GB. Of items in the rightmost column, which can be "flushed"? All of them look pretty important. Does "flush" mean "swap to disk" for you?