← Back to context Comment by stouset 4 hours ago Caches are automatically released by the OS when demand for memory increases. 5 comments stouset Reply bagels 3 hours ago You eventually run out of caches to evict. winter_blue 3 hours ago At that point you can still fall back onto swap on NVME. kulahan 2 hours 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… 1 reply → stouset 2 hours ago That is completely irrelevant to this discussion about using the RAM you’ve paid for.
bagels 3 hours ago You eventually run out of caches to evict. winter_blue 3 hours ago At that point you can still fall back onto swap on NVME. kulahan 2 hours 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… 1 reply → stouset 2 hours ago That is completely irrelevant to this discussion about using the RAM you’ve paid for.
winter_blue 3 hours ago At that point you can still fall back onto swap on NVME. kulahan 2 hours 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… 1 reply →
kulahan 2 hours 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… 1 reply →
stouset 2 hours ago That is completely irrelevant to this discussion about using the RAM you’ve paid for.
You eventually run out of caches to evict.
At that point you can still fall back onto swap on NVME.
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…
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That is completely irrelevant to this discussion about using the RAM you’ve paid for.