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The software stack has gotten so bad that no amount of hardware can make up for it. The compile times for Swift, the gigabytes of RAM everything seems to eat u
by alexashka 2y ago
The software stack has gotten so bad that no amount of hardware can make up for it.
The compile times for Swift, the gigabytes of RAM everything seems to eat up.
I closed all my apps and I'm at 10gb of RAM being used - I have nothing open.
Does this mean the Macbook Air 8gb model I had 10 years ago would basically be unable to just run the operating system alone?
It's disconcerting. Ozempic for terrible food and car-centric infrastructure we've created, cloud super-computing and 'AI' for coping with this frankenstein software stack.
The year of the Linux desktop is just around the corner to save the day, right? Right? :)
- carstenhag 2y agoMemory doesn't need to be freed until a different software needs it.
- alexashka 2y agoI'm referring to what Activity Monitor app tells me in its memory tab - not the underlying malloc/whatever implementation being used. It tells me my computer is using 8gb of RAM after a restart and I haven't begun to open or close anything. Yikes?
- astrange 2y agoIt's very hard to measure memory use because it's reactive to how much RAM you have; if you have more then it's going to use it. That doesn't necessarily mean there are any issues.
- Aloisius 2y agoActivity Monitor counts everything from I/O buffer caches to frame buffers in the "memory used" metric. Add in that MacOS won't free pages until it hits a certain memory pressure and you get a high usage with no desktop apps open. This also means that cleanly booted machine with 16 GB will show more memory used than a machine with 8 GB. Apple suggests you use the memory pressure graph instead to determine whether you're low on memory for this reason.