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If your Mac is sluggish, you frequently see the dreaded beachball and get warning dialogs about low disk space: "The core issue seems to be that the virtual me
by bitcartel 14y ago
If your Mac is sluggish, you frequently see the dreaded beachball and get warning dialogs about low disk space:
"The core issue seems to be that the virtual memory manager is bad at managing which pages should be freed from the inactive state and which ones should be paged out to disk (and, consequently, back from disk)."
http://workstuff.tumblr.com/post/20464780085/something-is-deeply-broken-in-os-x-memory-management http://workstuff.tumblr.com/post/20464780085/something-is-de...
- gtaylor 14y agoThe fact that you even have to do something like this to attempt to get decent performance illustrates my point. Not to mention that this may cause issues if you are RAM-constrained. It just seems like some engineering effort could be spent to improve this, but it's sucked for the last two Mac OS releases.