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Caches are automatically released by the OS when demand for memory increases.

• bagels 8mo ago
  You eventually run out of caches to evict.
  • winter_blue 8mo ago
    At that point you can still fall back onto swap on NVME.
    • kulahan 8mo ago
      Doesn’t Apple use pretty damn quick NVME? I wonder how much of a performance drop it actually is. Certainly not as bad as running a swap file on a 5400 rpm HDD…
      • gck1 8mo ago
        Isn't that NVME also very expensive to replace because it's tied to hardware identifiers? If you keep swapping all the time, surely NVME would be the first part to fail
        • ua709 8mo ago
          This was heavily debated in the 11.4 timeframe because there was risk that this version of the OS could excessively wear NVME. https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/06/04/apple-resolves-m1-mac-ssd-storage-longevity-issue-in-macos-114-beta https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/06/04/apple-resolves-m1... The issue was subsequently resolved but the consensus was with modern wear leveling this isn't so much a thing. I have a 2021 MacBook Pro with the original drive. I use it heavily for development practically every day and just dumped the SMART data. Model Number: APPLE SSD AP1024R === START OF SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED Available Spare: 100% Available Spare Threshold: 99% As always, YMMV
  • stouset 8mo ago
    That is completely irrelevant to this discussion about using the RAM you’ve paid for.
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