The comments on this thread illustrate an epidemic of ignorance of basic knowledge of macOS memory management (e.g., doing the laymen's mistake of looking at h

The comments on this thread illustrate an epidemic of ignorance of basic knowledge of macOS memory management (e.g., doing the laymen's mistake of looking at how much memory is used by applications, which is not a useful metric). At the very least you should read this article and note that this is from over a decade ago when memory management on macOS was comparatively simple https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2009-06-19-mac-os-x-process-memory-statistics.html https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2009-06-19-mac-os-x... If you're not OS engineer with a specific specialization in memory management, I'd suggest just sticking to the Apple article on this subject, which explains the easy way of evaluating whether you're experiencing memory-related slow downs https://support.apple.com/guide/activity-monitor/check-if-your-mac-needs-more-ram-actmntr34865/ https://support.apple.com/guide/activity-monitor/check-if-yo...