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macOS tends to view unused RAM as wasted RAM so it uses as much as possible which is different to the Windows approach. The integrated SSDs are also optimised f
by deletedie 2y ago
macOS tends to view unused RAM as wasted RAM so it uses as much as possible which is different to the Windows approach. The integrated SSDs are also optimised for swap to aid with that. So the ideal outcome should be like you said, not having to care about usage
- emptiestplace 2y agoNo, this is ridiculous - all modern operating systems use 'unused' RAM for disk cache.
- jasomill 2y agoAs an example: with ripgrep searching the entire (500 GB) C: drive for a fixed string, Task Manager reports: CPU: 61% 2.49 GHz Memory: 10.3/48.0 (21%) Disk 0 (C:): SSD 100% In use (Compressed): 10.1 GB (0 MB) Available: 37.7 GB Hardware reserved: 1.0 MB Committed: 8.9/48.8 GB Cached: 37.9 GB Paged pool: 2.0 GB Non-paged pool: 979 MB Observe that “Available” ≅ “Cached”. The system is a VM with 48 GB RAM and an 800 MB pagefile running Windows 11 (and lots of background processes: Emacs, Tailscale, sshd, WSL, NVIDIA and Adobe shovelware, etc.).