Comment by aurareturn
5 hours ago
It idles at 2-3GB but when your apps need the RAM, does it free up system memory so that it's closer to 500MB?
5 hours ago
It idles at 2-3GB but when your apps need the RAM, does it free up system memory so that it's closer to 500MB?
I use my Mac as a headless server to run LLMs, and never even start a desktop session so it always stays at pre-login state without any applications running. Even so, I never saw it using less than 2G in htop when logged via SSH.